Sunday, 26 January 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Donald Trump’s geopolitical strategy during his next presidency will reflect an overt attempt to reinforce US hegemony at the seas by entangling rival powers China and Russia.
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Global South
The Road to Chaos
The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance partners, would find themselves in a scrape in some country, and Bing would get out of it by selling Bob as a slave (Morocco in 1942, where Bing promises to buy him back) or committing him to be sacrificed in some pagan ceremony, and so forth. Bob always goes along with the plan, and there’s always a happy Hollywood ending where they escape together – with Bing always getting the girl.
Saturday, 25 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that some of the released Palestinian prisoners were brutally beaten by the IOF before their release.
This draws a stark contrast between the release of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli captives, who always seem in good shape upon their release.
The IOF also stormed the house of a freed Palestinian prisoner in Kafr Aakab today only a few hours after his release.
22 January 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
By Pepe Escobar
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”.
i January 2025 — Monthly Review
Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, Monthly Review Press (2016). Click here to buy now!
Friday, 24 January 2025 — GM Watch
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Jonathan Cook
[First published by Middle East Eye]
The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza is a decisive turning point.
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Statewatch
Welcome to the year’s first edition of the Statewatch Bulletin.
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Thursday, 23 January 2025 — The Planning Motive
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TRUMP THE MAGALOMANIAC
This article will deal with Trumps inaugural address first and then with his first Executive Orders.
Trump’s 30 minute political address whose predominant theme was that under his rule the USA would be reborn was the equivalent of a born again Christian homily. The past he claims was tarnished by his evil predecessor. “For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad.”
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — Institute of Race Relations
Less than six months after the far-right orchestrated racist riots that targeted asylum accommodation and mosques, comes a new bout of dog-whistle Islamophobia, fomented by Elon Musk who reposted forty tweets on the UK’s child sexual exploitation and ‘grooming gangs’ in 24 hours, also calling for the release of jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Conservative and Reform leaders Badenoch and Farage swiftly leapt onto the bandwagon, repeating Musk’s calls for a new national inquiry into the ‘national rape gangs scandal’, as documented in our calendar of racism and resistance.
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — GM Watch
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — The Tricontinental
Baasanjav Choijiljavin (Mongolia), The Taste of Money In-Between Clouds, 2009.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
For decades now, there has been a clear understanding that the models of development proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Washington Consensus – debt, austerity, structural adjustment – simply have not worked. The long history of adversity experienced by the former colonial countries remains intact. A glance at the numbers from the Maddison Project Database 2023 shows that global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms has risen by 689.9% between 1980 and 2022 (from $18.8 trillion to $148.5 trillion). (more…)
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
19 January, 2025 — Indian Punchline
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (R) met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv, January 11, 2025
President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their key operative in the White House, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, hopelessly underestimated President-elect Donald Trump’s quick reflex action to demolish their demonic plot to kickstart a war with Iran by attacking its nuclear installations just before the new president’s inauguration.
17 January, 2025 — Indian Punchline
An April 2023 satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC showing construction on an underground facility in the tangled mountains somewhere near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site which has been targeted by Israeli sabotage attacks multiple times
My one-week visit to Tehran to observe the presidential election last June came as an eye-opener. I could sense beyond doubt that Iran was on the cusp of profound changes. The country, which I had known professionally for decades ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, was heaving with high expectations of a radical change of course.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters.
Weddnesday, 22 January 2025 —MintPress News
Accounts have been reporting censorship on TikTok following it brief ban and return after seemingly being purchased by another company. According to the new TikTok, “free Palestine” is hate speech. The original ban was proposed by Congress members on the payroll of the Israel Lobby, the goal being to censor what Americans can say and hear.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — GM Watch
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — BettBeat Media
The genocide in Palestine isn’t just another ‘Middle Eastern’ conflict – it’s the culmination of an empire in terminal decline, desperately clinging to power through increasingly naked brutality. As empires rot from within, their true nature becomes most visible at the periphery.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — Global Delinquents
On January 19th, TIME magazine published an astonishing article, amply confirming what dissident, anti-war academics, activists, journalists and researchers have argued for a decade. The US always intended to abandon Ukraine after setting up the country for proxy war with Russia, and never had any desire or intention to assist Kiev in defeating Moscow in the conflict, let alone achieving its maximalist aims of regaining Crimea and restoring the country’s 1991 borders. To have a major mainstream outlet finally corroborate this indubitable reality is a seismic development.
The New Dark Age 