Friday, 28 February 2025 — National Security Archive
CONFIDENTIAL Report Does Not Reveal Intelligence Sources and Methods
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
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This month: Exploring Global Resistance and the Impact of Trump’s Second Term
Friday, 28 February 2025 — Transnational Institute
In this month, we explore pressing global struggles, from border imperialism in the Maghreb to community resistance against extractivism in Ecuador.
Additionally, we highlight crucial discussions on Palestine and the effectiveness of the BDS movement, featuring Francesca Albanese’s insights on historical injustices and Omar Barghouti’s analysis of Israel’s brain drain and global boycotts.
Lastly, we take a closer look at the political turmoil following the implications of the 2024 elections and the start of Trump’s second term in an in-depth interview with TNI associate Arun Kundnani by Verso Books.
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GM Watch Daily Digest 27 February 2025
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — GM Watch
Company uses gene editing to create glow-in-the-dark rabbits
A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic engineering to make glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats and dogs, and possibly, one day, actual unicorns. The Los Angeles Project is the brainchild of biohacker Josie Zayner, who in 2017 publicly injected herself with the gene-editing tool CRISPR during a conference in San Francisco and livestreamed it. “I want to help humans genetically modify themselves,” she said at the time. However, there’s the question of what happens if something goes wrong. CRISPR can cause unintended edits, which could lead to cancer or other health problems in an animal. Plus, no one really knows how many edits can be made to an animal’s genome without causing harm. And GloFish offer a cautionary tale. In Brazil, the fluorescent fish have escaped fish farms and are multiplying in creeks in the Atlantic Forest, raising concerns about whether they pose a threat to native species. WiredSign petition against commercialisation of GM pets
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Britain’s Secret Overseas Meddling Machine
Thursday, 27 February 2027 — Al Mayadeen English
The Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), a British intelligence cutout, covertly funds and orchestrates political destabilization and regime change efforts worldwide under the guise of democracy promotion.
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RAIDING UKRAINE: Trump’s Plan to Plunder Resources, End the War, and Isolate China
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — MintPress News
The useful thing about President Trump is that he has an ability to package the dismantling of the United States Empire as the building of the American Empire. His administration’s decision to end the war in Ukraine is a transparent attempt to raid Ukrainian mineral resources, snap the European Union back into line, and draw Russia closer to US interests and thereby isolate China. It won’t work. The Biden administration’s self-destructive, hawkish policy in Ukraine has already forced Russia irretrievably into China’s orbit, and European institutions are dissolving in realtime as right-wing nationalist movements are attacking the framework of pan-European governance. Join us tonight on State of Play to examine this historic inflection point in detail. State of Play is fully funded by our viewers. To help us keep independent journalism alive, join us on patreon today
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China Has Already Become the Leader in Advanced Critical Technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — The Tricontinental
Cao Fei (China), My Future Is Not a Dream 05, 2006.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump indicated his interest in annexing Greenland and brokering a peace deal for Ukraine that would include access to Ukrainian minerals and metals. It is important to note that Greenland has already been a point of contention around its vast holdings of rare earth minerals with such remarkable names as dysprosium, neodymium, scandium, and yttrium (there
are seventeen rare earth minerals that are central to any advanced technology). Given that Greenland is part of Denmark, it is therefore beholden to European Union (EU) rules. In 2011, the EU published a list of critical raw materials, which included these rare earth minerals. Then, in 2023, the EU passed the Critical Raw Materials Act, which urged domestic production of these critical minerals and metals and their import into the continent. Ukraine, meanwhile, has an enormous trove of rare earth metals (from apatite to zirconium) as well as reserves of lithium and titanium. Trump demanded at least $500 billion of these reserves from Ukraine as payment for the US’s support in the war. ‘I want to have security of rare earth’, Trump told reporters in early February, sounding like a character from the Lord of the Rings.
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“Israel” attacks southern Syria; now the die is cast for Jolani and HTS
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Critical Stack
In preparation for a ground invasion (as they did in Lebanon), “Israel” has been shelling southern Syria nonstop for the past 48 hours.
The only way a settler-colonial project can ensure its existence is by doing what it was founded to do: colonizing and settling.
In some cases, this succeeds better than in others. The United States, the Chief Imperialist in the world today, achieved coast-to-coast hegemony and, coupled with other colonies on the continent, it can now be said that the entirety of the Americas is presently colonized.
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Thank you to thousands who supported me: we won
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Yves Engler
By yvesengler
Meeting supporters after release (photo Alex Tyrell)
After spending five days imprisoned, I was released without restriction on my ability to discuss the charges brought against me for criticizing Israel. It’s a small win for free expression and Palestine campaigning.
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LIVE STARTING: Palestine crackdown hits Canada
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
Author Yves Engler was released on Monday after spending five days in a Montreal jail.
Engler’s arrest and detention was “a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada – a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society,” according to Alex Tyrrell, leader of the Green Party of Quebec.
The Electronic Intifada Livestream is starting soon!
1900 Palestine time / 2000 Amman time / 1700 GMT / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT
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Germany: Merz takes the helm of a sinking ship
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 — In Defence of Marxism
Friedrich Merz, leader of the right-wing Christian Democrats (CDU), will be Germany’s next Chancellor. On election night, he declared that a government should be in place by Easter, claiming that his mission is to unite Europe and that everything depends on leadership from Germany. Merz wants to be the ‘European Chancellor’ who will stand up to the USA, Russia and China and, as Der Spiegel has demanded, make the EU into a ‘great power’.[Originally published in German at derkommunist.de]
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Is American Empire Ending?
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Prof. Glenn Diesen on Judge Napolitano
I had the great pleasure of being on Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano to discuss the end of the American Empire. After decades of pursuing global primacy, the US has exhausted its resources and incentivised other great powers to balance the US collectively. For this exact reason, the US was traditionally an off-shore balancer seeking to avoid a physical presence on the Eurasian continent. There is at least a need to scale back and prioritise focus on the Western Hemisphere and Asia. This implies that Europe will no longer be a priority, which is a key reason why Trump wants to get the US out of Ukraine. After years of subservience, the Europeans are now building up political courage to reduce reliance on the US – although the key motivation is to continue the war in Ukraine. Realistically, there is no NATO without America as the main military power and European pacifier.
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GM Watch Daily Digest 26 February 2025
Weddnesday, 26 February 2025 — GM Watch
After trade dispute, Mexico officially bans the planting of GM corn
Mexico’s lower house of Congress has approved a constitutional reform to ban the planting of GM corn, a move that could lead to more tension with the US after the resolution of a trade dispute. The initiative by President Claudia Sheinbaum comes after a trade-dispute panel ruled that Mexico’s restrictions on GM corn, mostly imported from the US, violate the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). As a result of the USMCA panel ruling, Mexico repealed its import restrictions on GM corn for human, livestock and industrial uses. Mexico had already prohibited the commercial planting of GM corn strains, arguing they will contaminate native corn, but Sheinbaum pledged to officially prohibit the planting of GM corn in the country via the Constitution. However, the text of the reform also states that “Any other use of genetically modified corn must be evaluated… to be free of threats to the biosecurity, health and biocultural heritage of Mexico and its population.” Some analysts said the reform could spark a new controversy with the US because it refers to the use of GM corn, and not just the planting of the grain. Reuters
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Involuntarily Committed into the Zionist Asylum (for Being Normal)
Monday, 24 February 2025 — The Mizrahi Perspective
There can be no overstating the scope and intensity of the sick experiment of trying to legitimize Zionism and all its abhorrent, clearly visible, pathological criminality
A couple of days ago I uploaded a video to YouTube, in which I explained how the world-famous kiss on the heads of Hamas members, and the moment itself, symbolized Israel’s utter and complete failure in its genocide. The video was removed by the platform, and I realized I had to write this text
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Kazakhstan as a new biological testing ground for US DoD
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Alex Lloyd reveals how the US is turning Kazakhstan into a military-biological testing ground, funding research on deadly pathogens under the Pentagon’s supervision.
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EU on the Brink: Will Europe Collapse or Adjust to Multipolar Realities?
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Diesen & Pacini on Think BRICS
The EU continues to pursue policies that undermine its security, economy, political stability, and internal cohesion because it has failed to adjust to multipolar realities. The US is adjusting to multipolarity by demanding more loyalty from the Europeans, while similarly pivoting to Asia. Europe can recover by ending the expansionist bloc politics that redivided the continent and triggered a war, as its principal objective should be to restore economic competitiveness and political autonomy by pursuing economic diversification. However, the EU cannot change course as it has trapped itself in ideology and Manichaean narratives. The EU’s future depends on ending the proxy war in the Ukraine War, yet the Europeans are now the main opponents to negotiations and thus find themselves on the opposing side of the US, Russia, China, and the majority of Ukrainians.
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Three years of a cruel and destructive NATO proxy war in Ukraine
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 – Al Mayadeen English
Dmitri Kovalevich examines how the West sabotaged the Minsk 2 agreement, pushing Ukraine toward war, dictatorship, and political repression.
The end of February marks three years since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and 11 years since the ‘Euromaidan’ coup of February 2014. The coup was the main cause of the current military conflict.
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Orange Peace
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 — Media Lens
Is Donald Trump A Racist, Misogynistic, Ethnic Cleansing, Climate Denying Opponent Of War?
In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions’.
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The Gaza “Ceasefire” Is at a Crucial Crossroads
Monday, 24 February 2025 — Drop Site
Netanyahu wants to blow up the deal, Trump’s team is doing doublespeak diplomacy and Hamas says it doesn’t need to run Gaza but won’t disappear
The first phase of the deal between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire and exchange of captives is set to expire on Saturday, March 1, after what is supposed to be the final exchange on Thursday of the bodies of four Israeli captives for the freedom of several hundred Palestinians held by Israel. But, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu engaged in an active campaign to sabotage the internationally brokered deal that officially went into effect on January 19, the future of the deal is anything but certain.
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Israel bombards Gaza’s Rafah city in another violation of the ceasefire agreement
Monday, 24 February 2025 — MintPress News
In addition to opening fire on civilians with gunfire, the Israeli military also decided to launch airstrikes and artillery fire against Rafah. This occurred while Palestinians struggle to stay warm as the temperature dips, due to Israel violating the ceasefire by not allowing tents, caravans and other essential items into Gaza, three new-born babies have frozen to death, while five other cases of hypothermia have been confirmed amongst infants.
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Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate
Monday, 24 February 2025 — GM Watch
Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate
Open statement says some technologies pose “existential threats” to humanity
The New Dark Age 