Sunday, 2 March 2025 — The New Atlas
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Sunday, 2 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
The fight that broke out in the White House between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, on February 28 was a stark symbol of the colonial relationship between the two countries.
Sunday, 2 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Gilbert Doctorow about America’s efforts to end the Ukraine War and reduce its presence in Europe. The British and French are the main countries that can disrupt America’s plans, and Trump thus hosted both Macron and Starmer in Washington. While the Europeans want US security guarantees to get the US entangled and prolong the war, Trump has aimed to soften the position of the UK with an offer of a possible trade agreement. An agreement has to be reached with Russia soon as the Ukrainian army is collapsing, and then Russia will be in a much more favourable position. Trump offers an end to NATO expansion, territorial concessions, and no security guarantees for Ukraine because the war has been lost. Russia seemingly prefers a political agreement with the US that addresses the cause of the war, which was the failure to reach a mutually acceptable post-Cold War settlement to replace aggressive bloc politics.
Saturday, 1 March 2025 — Geopolitics And Climate Change
The leaders of the European vassals, including the British Starmer, have been utterly blindsided by the change in the balance of power among the US oligarchy. The latter have decided to move on from Ukraine to focus on the main “enemy” China, while the Euro vassal leaders have dug themselves in deep supporting the previous US oligarch position. Many of them, like so many of the US courtier administrative, political and think tank class, are now surplus to US oligarch requirements. So just as the US courtier class is being replaced with those that align with the new US oligarch position (dump Ukraine and move on to China, while extracting more from the vassals), the vassal leaders will be replaced unless they get in line. The whole Euro elite class is shocked because they have become utterly Atlanticist in the past decades and simply cannot believe that their boss is turning on them, even though they have been so dutiful and obedient. They are finding, just like mafia underlings, that when the boss changes his strategy anyone can be expendable. Best to get in line quickly before getting whacked.
Saturday, 1 March 2025 — The Postil Magazine
A hearty welcome to all. Thank you for your kind support. The past month has proven to be a deluge of noteworthy events that are flipping the narrative, changing power dynamics and redefining alliances. So, let’s have a closer look.
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Saturday, 1 March 2025 — The Postil Magazine
Volodymyr Zelensky showed up at the White House, in his best attire, which even President Trump had to note and admire, and decided that it would be the height of diplomacy to get into a verbal fight with both the President and Vice-President of the United States—for those who might not now remember, the US has been the primary funder and sponsor for everything that Zelensky has been doing to his country for the past three years.
Saturday, 1 March 2025 — Indian Punchline
A meeting between US President Donald Trump (C) and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) veered sharply off track in front of TV cameras and ended abruptly, White House, Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2025The dramatic scene in the Oval Office on Friday evening signals that President Donald Trump is decoupling the US from the ‘forever war’ in Ukraine that his predecessor Joe Biden left behind. The war is poised to end with a whimper, but its ‘butterfly effect’ on our incredibly complex, deeply interconnected world will define European and international security for decades to come.
Saturday, 1 March 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Europeans are covering their desire for continuing the proxy war with a belated apparent concern for making peace and backing Trump’s diplomacy.
Saturday, 1 March 2025 — The Busker
Prophetic Brazilian cartoonist Latuff – 2024
(This summary is about 4 minutes long whereas the Press conference lasted 49 mins.)
Well – just when you thought that things could not get any more dramatic, on Friday 28th February the White House was transformed into a Stage as Donald J used the occasion of Zelensky’s visit to strip the Emperor of his clothes in front of the whole world. I am not sure how much of this was orchestrated but the discussion took on a life of its own, ending in a disagreeable exchange which was not planned in my view.
Friday, 28 February 2025 — CGTN
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that his country and the U.S. have reached consensus on a deal to co-set up an “investment fund” for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Ukraine would contribute 50 percent of future proceeds from state-owned mineral resources, oil and gas to the fund, and the fund would then invest in projects in Ukraine itself. However, the deal leaves out crucial security guarantees for Ukraine. Zelensky is set to meet President Donald Trump in Washington this Friday to sign the agreement, which Trump claims could be worth around $1 trillion. So how do all key players regard the deal, including the EU and Russia? And finally, could the deal be one step closer to finally ending the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict? Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Benjamin Norton, founder and editor-in-chief of Geopolitical Economy Report; and Professor Glenn Diesen from the University of South-Eastern Norway.
Friday, 28 February 2025 — National Security Archive
CONFIDENTIAL Report Does Not Reveal Intelligence Sources and Methods
Friday, 28 February 2025 — Transnational Institute
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Thursday, 27 February 2025 — GM Watch
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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.
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
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.
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Critical Stack
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.
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Yves Engler
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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.
The New Dark Age 