Monday, 10 March 2025 — Morning Star Online
AN ANNOUNCEMENT from Denmark illustrates the danger of allowing the market to dictate service provision.
PostNord’s decision to stop delivering letters after 400 years will be seen as the inevitable consequence of technological change. Instead we should see it as the withdrawal of a public service, an example of what may be down the line for other countries, including ours.
Monday, 10 March 2025 — Media Lens
The BBC’s withdrawal of the powerful documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, epitomises how much the UK’s national broadcaster is beholden to the Israel lobby.
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — See you in 2020
Last month, in response to the rise of discussions about the Gaza genocide within my local community, a group called Shalom Humboldt published a series of assertions. They put out a letter to the editor that said they were “shocked to read so many lies about Zionism and Judaism” from those who’d been quoted in a recent newspaper article. The context behind this was that pro-Zionist activists within the area had put up a deliberately provocative billboard, which read: “Call me a Zionist, it only makes me prouder.” This prompted many people to accurately describe the billboard’s message as fascist and supremacist, so now Humboldt’s pro-Zionist contingent is trying to retake control of the conversation.
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Sunday, 9 March 2025 — Peoples Forum
Last night, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, from his home. Khalil and his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them. The agents initially refused to identify themselves, instead asking Khalil to confirm his identity before detaining him without explanation. Khalil is now in ICE detention.
TOMORROW WE TAKE TO THE STREETS!
We demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. Hands off our students! ICE off our campuses!
📅 Tomorrow, Monday, March 10
🕓 4PM
📍Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, NYC
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Sunday, 9 March 2025 — Droop Site News
NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.
Friday, 7 March 2025 — Pearls & Irritations
In its response to AUKUS with its objective of militarily confronting China in the South China Sea, we should not be surprised by Chinese naval vessels sailing around Australia to pick up some intelligence or at least showing us their growing naval power.
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — New Atlas
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Forces Are at Center of Ukraine’s Kursk Area of Operation According to Pro-Ukrainian Map
▪️Russia has been steadily grinding down Ukrainian positions/shrinking their area of operation in Russia’s Kursk region since the senseless incursion began;
▪️Now pro-Ukrainian Live UA Map indicates Russian forces are present even at the very heart of this area which includes the town of Sudzha, as video evidence of retreating Ukrainian forces emerge;
▪️The Ukrainian conflict is one of attrition Russia has been winning for 3 years, the collapse of Ukraine’s presence in Kursk is inevitable as is the collapse of Ukraine’s defenses along the line of contact;
▪️This is why the US is desperate to freeze, not end the conflict, before a complete collapse takes place across the entire line of contact and why the Trump administration has begun threatening Russia if it doesn’t submit to a ceasefire in a conflict Russia is now decisively winning;
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — Declassified UK
A Declassified UK investigation has uncovered secret meetings between former IOF Chief Aviv Kohavi and top British media executives, including editors from The Guardian, BBC, and Financial Times. Backed by “Israel’s” military and foreign ministry, these talks aimed to shape Western coverage of “Israel’s” war on Gaza as global outrage over the Israeli atrocities grew. Documents revealed a calculated effort to “influence influencers” and sway public opinion to bolster the Israeli narrative, particularly at a time when Israeli military actions were drawing widespread international criticism for human rights violations and acts of genocide.
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — Morning Star Online
THIRTY people turned their backs on judges today to reveal T-shirts reading “corruption in court,” after it was announced that only six years would be shaved off a 41-year prison sentence for climate protesters involved in peaceful action.
Friday, 7 March 2025 — Geopolitics And Climate Change
For many decades Germany has trodden the path of internal deflation relative to other EU nations, racking up huge trade surpluses that heavily contributed to the European Debt Crisis of the early 2010s. Greatly aided by the inability of the other Euro nations to devalue given the single currency, and the neoliberal policies that suppressed German real wages. The country was also central to the EU decision to limit national government deficits to 3% of GDP and imposed upon itself a “debt brake” (the balanced budget amendment) that restricts annual structural government deficits to 0.35% of GDP. Germany’s current account surplus averaged 3.3% of GDP from 1980 to 2023, with a high of 8.9% in 2016. (more…)
BRITAIN has returned to the “bad old days” of the Birmingham Six, with corrupt judges and police swapping Irish people for black and Muslim communities, top defence lawyers have said.
Thursday, 6 March 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Liberals Want War in Ukraine, Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But All Agree on Death in Gaza
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Donald Trump’s efforts to normalize relations with Russia, and to end the fighting in the Ukraine proxy war are logical and sensible. But years of whipped up anti-Russia hatred make logical solutions difficult to achieve, with democrats trying to fight his change of course. While Russia is a hot button issue, there is silence and bipartisan consensus about continuing Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
Thursday, 6 March 2025 — The Tricontinental
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Yes, the headline of this newsletter is accurate.
As far as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned, each person in the Global North is worth nine people in the Global South. We get that calculation from IMF data on voting power in the organisation relative to the population of the Global North and Global South states. Each country, based on its ‘relative economic position’, as the IMF suggests, is given voting rights to elect delegates to the IMF’s executive board, which makes all of the organisation’s important decisions. A brief glance at the board shows that the Global North is vastly overrepresented in this crucial multilateral institution for indebted countries.
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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.
The New Dark Age 