Wednesday, 27 August 2025 — MintPress News
Jonathan Hall, the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation—whose role includes assessing whether groups like Palestine Action qualify as terrorist organisations—has personal ties to Israel: his father-in-law, Lord Dyson, is a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel, and Hall himself has vacationed in Israel and visited its counter-terrorism units. This was revealed by independent journalist and former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray.
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 — Marginalia Subversiva
This is the very architecture of genocidal language, laid bare. Here is a verbatim translation of the announcement in the leaflet, without interpretation or reframing:
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Tuesday, 26 August 2025 — HART
Dr Clare Craig
The shocking evidence heard in the Scottish Covid Inquiry about how people in care homes were denied dignity, love and ultimately life through withdrawal of healthcare during covid has now been echoed in England. Together held a panel discussion including the voices of whistleblowers who have not been heard and addressing fears that the inquiry will not join the dots on the evidence and that damaging new law will embed these practices if any kind of emergency is announced in future.
Tuesday, 26 August 2025 — Jonathan Cook
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Sunday, 25 August 2025 — Middle East Eye
A man holds the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri who was killed along with other journalists at the Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on 25 August 2025 (Reuters/Hatem Khaled)
Sunday, 25 August 2025 — Global Delinquents
August 1st marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords’ inking. The event’s golden jubilee passed without much in the way of mainstream comment, or recognition. Yet, the date was absolutely seismic, its destructive consequences reverberating today throughout Europe and beyond. The Accords not only signed the death warrants of the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, and Yugoslavia years later, but created a new global dynamic, in which “human rights” – specifically, a Western-centric and -enforced conception thereof – became a redoubtable weapon in the Empire’s arsenal.
Monday, 25 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Since the early 2020s, Britain has been dreaming of a place on the Asia-Pacific stage again. Britain creates the illusion that its navy is still capable of something, but this is not the case.
Monday, 25 August 2025 — Geopolitics & Climate Change
This is a review of a chapter in the edited volume “A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War” that Alexander Anievas has made available online here. The introductory paragraph:
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Sunday, 24 August 2025 — Savage Minds
The President of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, at her inauguration ceremony in Skopje, on 12 May 2025. Photo credit: Ognen Teofilovski
Sunday, 24 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
More than 1.5 years have passed since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza, under the veneer of eliminating Hamas. Israel has been unable to inflict any major blow to Hamas but has devastated the civilian population of the Gaza Strip.
Saturday, 23 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Genocide Live: The World Is Silent While Gaza Dies Despite International Condemnation, the Israeli Government Continues to Harden Its Policy
Wednesday, 22 August 2025 — Danny Haiphong
Putin’s wins keep piling up as Trump’s Alaska Summit reveals the extent of Ukraine’s defeat at the hands of Russia says geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar. This video breaks down the significance of the summit sending shockwaves across the world as the Ukraine war winds down.
12 August 2025 — Tribune
Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, appears at a photo call in a committee room in the House of Lords on October, 2022. (Credit: Rob Pinney via Getty Images.)
Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.
Friday, 22 August 2025 — NetPol
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Thursday, 21 August 2025 — The Tricontinental
Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka (Soviet Union), Defence of Sevastopol, 1942.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
A walk through the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Beijing makes one despise war and everything about militarism. The museum is not far from the Marco Polo (or Lugou) Bridge, where the Chinese people began their war to liberate their country from the Japanese occupation in the north. The most striking parts of the museum are those that demonstrate the ugly violence of Japanese militarism, such as the Nanjing Massacre (1937–1938); the horrendous biological and chemical warfare and unspeakable human experimentation conducted by Unit 731 in the northeastern city of Harbin (1936–1945); and the prisons for ianfu (‘comfort women’) that the Japanese military established to hold sex slaves for their soldiers.
Thursday, 21 August 2025 — The New Atlas
“Following the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and the following meeting of European leaders, the Ukrainian president and President Trump in Washington, a predictable US policy had begun to take shape.
As stated as early as February of this year by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaking to European leaders at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, Europe was tasked with taking over Washington’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine by ramping up NATO spending, arms production, and the transfer of material support to Ukraine, allowing the US to pivot to the Asia-Pacific prioritizing the containment of China there…”
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — Climate & Capitalism
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) it says. Climate & Capitalism has received review copies of some of these books, but we do not receive any payment for reviews or for reader purchases.
(Apologies for skipping July and for this late post in August: I will try to resume my regular schedule in September)
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — Carl Zha
Carl Zha speaks to Brian Berletic about the aftermath of Putin Trump Summit in Alaska, how it will shape the Ukraine conflict endgame and US goal of pivoting to Asia to contain China
The New Dark Age 