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[l] at 2/12/25 8:01am
Much has been written in the alternative press over the past year about the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and its other war crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc. This has often been viewed within the historical context of the self-declared Zionist Israeli state’s founding in 1948 up to the present day. But far less has been said about the Zionist’s racial-nationalist-settler-colonialist movement’s history of terrorism to seize Palestine and kill and drive the Palestinians into exile that goes back for more than a century

[Category: Books, Palestine, Zionism]

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[l] at 2/12/25 7:37am
LABOUR MPs have been banned from publicly criticising government policies in a new clampdown by the beleaguered Starmer regime, it was revealed today.

[Category: UK, Labour Party, starmer]

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[l] at 2/12/25 5:46am
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 — The Transnational Institute Geopolitical rivalry is reshaping our world, as reactionary nationalists rise to power and global tensions mount. Our 13th State of Power report explores the shifting global order—questioning whether we are witnessing the decline of US imperialism and the rise of a Chinese empire, how nationalism is reshaping neoliberal []

[Category: Capitalism, World]

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[l] at 2/12/25 5:38am
Ex-policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Mark Smith, penned an op-Ed for the Guardian in which he stated “I was responsible for assessing whether the UK government’s arms sales adhered to legal and ethical standards under domestic and international law.” He resigned from his position in August of 2024, now blowing the whistle on London ignoring evidence of war crimes in order to continue the flow of weapons to Israel.

[Category: Palestine, UK, arms sales, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 2/12/25 3:15am
In an interview with Israeli television last Thursday, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, confirmed that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on 7 October 2023, the day of attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian fighters.

[Category: Media Lens, Palestine, BBC, Gaza Genocide, Hannibal Directive]

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[l] at 2/11/25 10:29am
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 GM Watch GMO deregulation threatens breeders, farmers, and the organic and non GMO sectors in the EU  European countries must protect farmers, small- and medium-sized seed breeders, and the organic and GM-free sectors from threats to their business posed by the deregulation of new GMOs, warns Greenpeace and more than []

[Category: Agriculture, Environment, Health]

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[l] at 2/11/25 9:49am
The UK has used its Terrorism Law to detain journalists and activists expressing critical views of its foreign policy toward Israel

[Category: Palestine, UK, Craig Murray, Gaza, Gaza Genocide, Kit Klarenberg, Palestine solidarity, Richard medhurst, UK terrorism law]

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[l] at 2/11/25 8:10am
On how the increasing digitalisation of life will mean fewer and fewer of us will work in real jobs doing tangible, physical ‘stuff’, and more and more of us will be economically redundant.

[Category: Capitalism, AI, Google, Meta, Server Farms]

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[l] at 2/11/25 8:03am
Mere weeks after a ceasefire in the Gaza genocide was finally reached, the agreement already appears on the verge of collapse, due to brazen - and self-admitted - Israeli violations of its terms. Tel Aviv’s abrupt resumption of hostilities and refusal to abide by the armistice’s obligations has a clear motivation. Namely, mass state and public-level outrage throughout the Arab and Muslim world at the rancid ultimate end goals of the ‘armistice’, as articulated by Donald Trump at a February 4th summit with Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Category: Palestine, UK, Adam Smith International, Anthony Malkin, COPPS, Jenin, Palestine Authority, Zionism]

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[l] at 2/11/25 4:28am
From the very start Hitler was financially supported and groomed by elements of the German establishment. As that establishment’s hold on the German people was challenged by the Great Depression they decided to move from liberalism (control the population through a hegemonic culture and false consciousness) to fascism. Hitler’s Nazi Party was very fully funded by German big business, but its vote share fell in the November 1932 election (from 37.3% in the July 1932 election to 33.1%). So the German establishment quickly installed him as the Chancellor of Germany (January 30th 1933). With this new power he utilized the state and the SA to fix the 1933 elections in his favour. Hitler was always a creation of the German oligarchs for the benefit of the German oligarchs.

[Category: Germany, AFD, fascism, nazi party, neoliberalism]

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[l] at 2/10/25 2:34pm
Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain ‘giving up sovereignty’ of illegally occupied land. Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy will this week meet his new US counterpart, Marco Rubio, to rescue Labour’s plan for the joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands.

[Category: UK, Chagos Islands]

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[l] at 2/10/25 1:51pm
arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes. Throughout the making of “No Other Land” — our documentary about the struggle and resilience of the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta in the face of Israel’s efforts to expel us — one question persisted: Will anyone even watch this? Will anyone care?

[Category: Movies, Palestine, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 2/10/25 1:19pm
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, made a memorable speech to the stormy Labour Party annual conference in 2016, while per forma  congratulating Jeremy Corbyn for winning the leadership election with an increased mandate but remaining sceptical that the party would be “trusted to govern again”.

[Category: Iran] [Link to media]

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[l] at 2/10/25 12:21pm
Monday, 10 February 2025 GM Watch US-funded social network attacking pesticide critics shuts down A US-funded social network attacking pesticide and GMO critics has shut down after an investigation by Lighthouse Reports in collaboration with The Guardian and others. The St Louis, Missouri-based firm, v-Fluence, said its shuttering the service that featured personal details []

[Category: Agriculture, Environment, Health]

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[l] at 2/10/25 10:30am
Immediate impeachment is the only option, but we must bring criminal charges against all the collaborating politicians, Democratic and Republican alike

[Category: USA]

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[l] at 2/7/25 9:56am
I was interviewed by Ab Gietelink about my book “The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order”. NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the global primacy of the Political West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and set Europe on the path to war without the possibility of a course correction. Ukraine as a divided country in a divided Europe has been a crucial pawn in the great power competition between NATO and Russia for the past three decades.

[Category: Asia, Europe, NATO, Ukraine, Videos]

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[l] at 2/7/25 6:32am
There are multiple signs, as documented in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, that a myopic narrative around the far-right-orchestrated racist riots of summer 2024 is in the making – that normalises racism and forecloses on any discussion of the organised violence of the far Right.

[Category: UK]

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[l] at 2/6/25 10:11am
During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

[Category: Palestine, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 2/6/25 5:47am
“For technologists, being followed is rewarding. Open-source is cultural, not just commercial. Giving back is an honour, and it attracts talent.” Quote: Founder Liang Wenfeng

[Category: China, artificial intelligence, DeepSeek]

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[l] at 2/6/25 5:33am
Donald Trump returned to the White House with a loud thump. His staff threw executive order upon executive order on his desk, which he signed with a flourish and then got on the phone to bark orders at the Danes and the Panamanians and the Colombians, demanding this, that, and the other thing, that thing, this thing, the things that he feels that the United States deserves.

[Category: Tricontinental]

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[l] at 2/6/25 3:55am
Trump has frozen US aid to South Africa, citing land confiscation and human rights concerns, but analysts see it as retaliation for South Africa's ICJ case against "Israel" over genocide in Gaza.

[Category: Palestine, South Africa, USA, Cyril Ramaphosa, Gaza Genocide, ICJ, trump]

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