Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Showdowns between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary will determine the fate of everyone in the country, including whether the government has the right to send U.S. citizens to jail in other countries. The last veneer of democracy is now at risk.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — GM Watch
Wednesdday, 19 March 2025 — MintPress News
President Trump, our ersatz “anti-war candidate,” has chosen to escalate U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, bombing some of the poorest people on Earth while squandering vast sums on obscenely expensive naval air operations. Such is America’s way, it seems. Rather than leveraging diplomatic and economic pressure to compel Israel to facilitate aid access—thereby halting Houthi retaliation and restoring freedom of navigation for the global supply chain—Donald “Art of the Deal” Trump is exploiting this moment to isolate the Houthis from Iran’s weakened Axis of Resistance. His apparent aim? To force them into accepting terms more favorable to the U.S. in a future Nuclear Deal.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Global Delinquents
On March 15th, Yemen was battered with airstrikes, described as a “wicked” act of Anglo-American aggression by spokespeople for AnsarAllah. The blitzkrieg, which overwhelmingly targeted residential areas, killed at least 31 civilians and injured over 100 more. In a characteristically bombastic outburst, US President Donald Trump declared the “decisive and powerful military action” was launched in response to “relentless assaults” on Western shipping and “American vessels.” He pledged Washington would continue to “use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.”
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — The Mizrahi Perspective
My horror and rage at the renewed mass murder, and about one particularly vicious instrument that allows Israel to continue the slaughter without international resistance
13 March 2025 — The New Atlas
As Ukraine’s Kursk operations collapse and wider fears grow regarding the viability of Ukraine’s armed forces, the US is rushing to freeze the conflict, create a European-occupied buffer zone in Ukraine, and buy time to rearm and reorganize Ukraine’s forces for the next round of fighting.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Here’s the straight edited translation of the Kremlin’s readout of the second publicly acknowledged phone chat between Presidents Putin and Trump. One publication says the call lasted three hours:
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — Drop Site News
GAZA CITY—I woke up at 3 a.m. on March 18th to the sound of a massive explosion above my head, shattering the silence of the night. For a moment, I felt like I had died.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — BettBeat Media
The skies over Gaza have darkened once again with the smoke of destruction. What we are witnessing is not warfare but the methodical erasure of human existence – a calculated annihilation that defies description yet demands our witness. Israel has unleashed what can only be called an apocalyptic nightmare upon Gaza, fulfilling the chilling promise made by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich weeks earlier. This is genocide unfolding before our eyes, again —Israel’s torture, rape and death machine will not and cannot stop.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — A Plague on Both Houses
Wesley Fryer – Creative commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
It has taken a mere 30 years for the majority of the Western World to herd itself into a prison that mimics the mind – the software of a parallel digital universe called the World Wide Web. Epochal technological developments or cultural evolutions are often both gifts and curses. Time is the final arbiter of which one wins – the gift or the curse. At this juncture, I would agree with the proposition that the invention of digital technology and the internet will turn out to be a great and sudden leap backward for humankind.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — MintPress News
Of the some 410 Palestinians killed, the majority were women, children and the elderly, who were murdered along with their entire families in many cases. The continuation of the war in Gaza has also quickly led to a collapse of the health system, making it difficult to treat the hundreds of wounded civilians.
Celebrations erupt after the Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled against the eviction application in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal. Photo: Abahlali baseMjondolo
A landmark ruling has blocked the eviction of poor residents in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, marking a major victory for the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 426 martyrs, with an additional 600 wounded, many in critical condition.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, stated that over 400 people have been martyred, while between 300 to 600 others have been injured, warning that many may succumb to their wounds due to the severity of their injuries.
After a fragile ceasefire that lasted roughly two months, “Israel” has resumed its aggression on Gaza with intense airstrikes still ongoing.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — Media Lens
Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World’, ‘Rifles: Six Years with Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters’ and ‘The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers’. He has also served in the Royal Tank Regiment and the Territorial Army.
Monday, 17 March 2025 — Indian Punchline
On Iran nuclear issue, Chinese foreign minster Wang Yi (C) held a joint meeting with Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov (L) and Iran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi, Beijing, March 14, 2025 On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date.
Monday, 17 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
The United States is by far the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of all weapons exports from 2020 to 2024.
The US transferred 7.3 times more weapons than China, and 5.5 times more than Russia.
In fact, Russia’s global arms exports declined by 64% from 2020 to 2024, and China’s fell by 5.4%, whereas those of the US grew by 21%.
There were also large increases in weapons exports during this five-year period in Italy (+138%), Spain (+29%), France (+11%), and South Korea (+4.9%).
This is according to data compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Monday, 17 March 2025 — BettBeat Media
In an act that epitomizes the moral and political bankruptcy of the West, President Donald Trump authorized airstrikes on Yemen this weekend—a country already suffering from nearly a decade of relentless war, starvation, and disease. Having laid waste to Palestine, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, mankind’s ancient cultural heritage of Yemen is now in the crosshairs, another pearl destined to be erased from the earth by the capitalist psychopaths ruling the United States.
Monday, 17 March 2025 — The New Dark Age
The Times reported that European nations are preparing to deploy over 10,000 troops to Ukraine as part of a “peacekeeping mission,” with the United Kingdom and France contributing a major share.
A UK military source revealed that the initiative has expanded beyond its initial three countries involved, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer securing support from over 35 nations for weapons, intelligence, and logistics.
“It will be a significant force with a significant number of countries providing troops and a much larger group contributing in other ways,” the source stated.
Meanwhile, Russia has strongly condemned the plan, warning that any NATO-affiliated troop presence, even under a peacekeeping mandate, would be considered a direct threat.
Monday, 17 March 2025 — Simplicius
We’re starting to glimpse the contours of the European deep state plan to stop Russia from taking over Ukraine. Macron and Starmer are now desperate to push through the ‘boots-on-ground’ initiative in a deliberately obfuscating way. They are haranguing about it like it’s something meant to occur only at such time that an agreement on the conflict’s full cessation is reached. But in reality, it increasingly looks like they mean to jam through the troops at the earliest opportune moment, in order to ‘checkmate’ Russia from being able to advance any further.
As such, we’re meant to believe the much-ballyhooed “30-day ceasefire” is supposed to be some kind of good-faith purity test for Russia to ‘prove’ its commitment to ending the conflict. In actuality, it seems to be a trick designed to ram through European troops to immediately secure Ukraine’s most sensitive zones, and dissuade Russia from further advancement.
Starmer kicked it off this week with his announcement that the troop deal has reached an “operational phase” of discussion:
