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”.
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An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist
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!
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GM Watch Daily Digest 24 January 2025
Friday, 24 January 2025 — GM Watch
Brazil says soy shipments to China from five firms halted due to contamination
China, the world’s biggest soybean buyer, has stopped receiving Brazilian soybean shipments from five firms after cargoes did not meet plant health requirements, according to a statement from the Brazilian government. The Brazilian agriculture ministry said China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) detected the presence of pesticides and pests on a routine inspection of cargos. [GMW: Most Brazil-grown soybeans are GM herbicide-tolerant.] Yahoo! Finance
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Gaza protest: How Starmer and the Met have joined forces to quash all dissent
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Jonathan Cook
Dozens of people were arrested on the weekend at a peaceful demonstration aiming to highlight British complicity in Israel’s slaughter
[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.
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Statewatch Bi-weekly bulletin: issue 25/01
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Statewatch
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Welcome to the year’s first edition of the Statewatch Bulletin.
You may have already noticed, but 2025 has brought several changes to Statewatch. You can find explanations of these changes along with our regular newsletter content below, now in a friendlier format.
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The Statewatch team
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NOT SO MUCH ‘GOD SAVE AMERICA’ AS GOD SAVED TRUMP TO SAVE AMERICA
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.”
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Why we must challenge divisive ‘grooming gangs’ narratives
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.
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GM Watch Daily Digest 23 January 2025
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — GM Watch
ACTION ALERT: Keep GMO food regulated and labelled!
Sign the petition urging the European Commission and EU national governments to take a strong stand against any attempts to exclude new GMOs from the existing EU GMO legislation and to uphold mandatory safety checks, transparency and labelling for all GMOs to guarantee the safety of our food, as well as to protect nature, the environment and our freedom of choice. You can sign whatever country you are based in. WeMove Europe
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The Promethean Aspirations of the Darker Nations: The Fourth Newsletter (2025)
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…)
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Trump vows to ‘expand’ US territory, invokes Manifest Destiny, hints at military force in Panama & Greenland
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
At his inauguration, US President Donald Trump promised to “expand our territory”, invoked the colonialist “Manifest Destiny”, and vowed to take over the Panama Canal (falsely claiming China runs it).
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Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part II
19 January, 2025 — Indian Punchline
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (R) met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv, January 11, 2025 Trump frogmarches Netanyahu down the deep stairs
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.
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Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part I
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 timesIran’s Islamic revolution is in transition
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.
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Black Agenda Report January 22, 2025
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned
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.
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“TikTok is back”, but minus free speech
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.
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GM Watch Daily Digest 22 January 2025
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — GM Watch
There is no “magic threshold” for new GMO safety
Testbiotech has published a new backgrounder summarising recent research showing clear evidence that the EU Commission proposal for the future regulation of plants obtained from new genetic engineering (new genomic techniques, NGT) is inadequate. It would be outdated before the new regulation could be implemented. The proposal is based on the fundamental misconception that there is a threshold of 20 mutations for NGT effects that would not require risk assessment. However, recent scientific publications have found undeniable evidence that there is no such thing as a “magic threshold”. Testbiotech
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Gaza’s Priceless Gift to Humanity
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — BettBeat Media
Through their unbearable sacrifice, Palestinians have given us the Great Unmasking of the West: revealing how crimes against humanity aren’t aberrations but core features of Western ‘civilization’.
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.
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It’s Official: US Abandoning Ukraine
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.
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GM Watch Daily Digest 21 January 2025
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 — GM Watch
Poland’s gene editing gamble leaves EU Member States baffled
Poland’s bid to end an EU impasse on new gene-edited crops has flopped after its much-anticipated patent proposal was met with confusion from other member states. Poland’s proposal was meant to unite the bloc and secure a deal before handing over the EU Council presidency in July. Instead, diplomats at a working group meeting were left scratching their heads. “What is the problem they want to solve with this? A fear of international monopolies?” asked one diplomat. “The solution is causing more problems than it solves.” Another diplomat noted that the complexity of the Polish proposal has itself become a stumbling block. “Consensus was that the text has become so complex that no one can make sense of it any more.” Politico (paywalled, subscription only, no link in header)
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Watch: What the Hell is That?
18 January 2025 — Craig Murray
The United States is building a massive megastructure in Lebanon, a country with the area and population of Yorkshire or Connecticut and just a tenth of the economy. It is called an Embassy but plainly it is not. No western media is doing this kind of reporting from the Middle East.
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Scott Ritter & Pepe Escobar: Trump’s SHOCKING Executive Orders–Putin, Iran & China BRACE for War
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 — Danny Haiphong
BREAKING: Trump returns to office with a huge snub of Ukraine and a series of moves that are sending shockwaves across the geopolitical landscape. In this must-see LIVE program, Scott Ritter returns to react to the realities of the Ukraine conflict and what Trump’s recent moves say abut where the world is headed. Pepe Escobar returns in the second half for a full run down on the impact Trump’s foreign policy will have on the multipolar world.
The New Dark Age 