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The Starmer regime is turning Britain into a police state

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:32 UTC
FILE PHOTO. A Palestine Action activist
© Martin pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO. A Palestine Action activist is arrested by police officers in Manchester, UK, November 22, 2023.
The UK is witnessing the largest and most significant prison hunger strike since 1981. Since the beginning of November, a total of eight activists in pretrial detention for standing up against the Gaza Genocide, have been protesting against Israel's continuing mass murder, Britain's complicity, and their own abusive and petty treatment by, as it happens, the same infamous legal and incarceration system that used to torture Julian Assange on behalf of the US.

The hunger strikers' demands also include releasing documents showing how Britain's extremely powerful Israel Lobby has been influencing the government and an end to the absurd proscription of the activists' own Palestine Action organization as 'terrorist.'

The charges against the activists refer to two cases: the break-in at a British branch of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and infiltration of a Royal Air Force base to damage two planes with red paint and crowbars. Elbit is one of the many Israeli and multinational companies that are deeply involved in Israel's genocide in Gaza and its ceaseless other crimes elsewhere, as UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has shown in her recent report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide."
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India's third energy front lies in the Arctic, and Russia holds the key to it

Manish Vaid
RT
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:30 UTC
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India PM Narendra Modi • Russia President Vladimir Putin
The Northern Sea Route is emerging in New Delhi's strategy linking resource-rich Arctic and Russian Far East to its industrial base.

For decades, India's engagement with the Arctic was framed primarily through scientific curiosity, focused on climate research, cryosphere dynamics, and polar expeditions. The summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin this December marks a qualitative shift.

Behind the formal words of the Joint Statement lies a clear and important shift. New Delhi is working to make the Arctic a key arena for its economic strategy. By committing to multi-faceted cooperation on the Northern Sea Route (NSR), intensifying trade and investment in the Russian Far East and Arctic, and holding regular bilateral consultations on Arctic issues, India is signaling that it no longer views the polar region merely as a geographic outpost, but as an integrated industrial corridor where it intends to be a rule-shaper rather than a passive observer.
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Arrow Up

Beginning of the end for Europe's old security order: Towards a geoeconomic architecture emerging from Washington - Moscow dynamic

Ricardo Martins
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Putin Witkoff
© Kremlin.ru/ Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0Russian President Vladimir Putin • US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff • Kremlin • Moscow, Russia
Europe's long-standing security framework is undergoing profound strain, increasingly overshadowed by economic instruments that shape geopolitical influence.

This analysis examines how geoeconomic logics are reshaping Europe's strategic posture and challenging the foundations of its traditional security order.

1. The Unraveling: How Europe Lost Control of Its Own Security Architecture

The photograph of Steve Witkoff with Vladimir Putin in Moscow is not merely another episode in the long chronicle of American informal diplomacy. It is a symbol of something far more consequential: the definitive erosion of the Euro-Atlantic security architecture that has anchored Europe since 1945. Europe now finds itself a spectator to a negotiation that directly concerns its future but in which it has no meaningful voice.

For decades, European leaders assumed that their security environment was guaranteed through three pillars: American military supremacy, NATO cohesion, and a Russia that could be simultaneously contained and marginalised. The war in Ukraine temporarily sustained this illusion. The European Union interpreted Russia's invasion of Ukraine as validation of the post-1991 Atlantic order, proof that Europe needed more NATO, more American leadership, more defence spending, and more ideological alignment with Washington.

But as the conflict entered its later stages, and as new political dynamics emerged in Washington, a deeper reality became visible: Europe's vision of security was not aligned with America's long-term strategic trajectory.

Comment: The big picture - who's in, who's out and why.

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Arrow Down

Trump's team no longer trusts Netanyahu


RT
Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:37 UTC
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© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The US president's close aides reportedly feel that the Israeli prime minister is deliberately stalling the Gaza peace process.

Officials in US President Donald Trump's closest circle no longer believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can be trusted to push forward with the Gaza peace plan, Axios reported on Friday, citing insiders.

The future of Trump's grand Gaza war settlement roadmap, unveiled in September, hinges on his upcoming meeting with the Israeli leader on Monday, according to the outlet.

Last week, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with officials from Egypt, Qatar, and Türkiye to finalize the next step of the plan, which envisions Hamas disarmament and an Israeli pullout from Gaza.

However, Netanyahu has privately expressed skepticism about the roadmap, yet the plan cannot go ahead without his buy-in, Axios said. The outlet cited a White House official as saying:
"Bibi is trying to convince a one-man audience. The question is whether Trump will side with him or with his top advisers when it comes to Gaza."

Comment: What took them so long...?

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Arrow Up

Palestinian factions have come together to thwart Israeli plans in Gaza, for now

Mitchell Plitnick
Mondoweiss
Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Omar Ashtawy/APA ImagesPalestinian militants of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stand guard next to a crowd watching the transfer of released Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in the south of Deir el-Balah • central Gaza Strip • October 13, 2025
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump's plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide.

The United States seems to be poised to reevaluate its tactics in implementing President Donald Trump's plan for the Gaza Strip. It seems they are considering installing a Palestinian technocrat government and Palestinian police force before assembling their International Stabilization Force (ISF), which they are finding no country wants to be part of.

While this remains very far from acknowledging the rights of the Palestinian people, and even farther from realizing those rights in practice, it is a real vindication for the strategic decisions that the assortment of Palestinian factions — not only Hamas — made in the wake of the diminishment of Israel's genocide in October.

According to recent reports, the governments of Egypt, Türkiye, and Qatar have managed to make the Trump administration understand that their push for quick Palestinian disarmament in Gaza and the subsequent occupation of the Strip by an international force that would not include Palestinians is a non-starter.

Now, Washington is trying to come up with a formula that is more in keeping with what they've heard from their allies and would still be something they can sell to Israel. For its part, Israel has been conspicuously silent about all of this, probably waiting for their prime minister's visit to Washington next week to voice their objections.

On paper, that all seems to amount to a minor victory at best, but digging deeper, we can see it vindicates the strategy the Palestinians have pursued to end Israel's genocide and avoid the total surrender that Israel has pursued as the price for ending that horror.

Comment: Trump administration's engagement of other countries of similar stance and understanding has multiple benefits. Global leverage is one. Unmasking Israel for all to see is another.

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Best of the Web: Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia's world-first social media ban begins

Josh Taylor
The Guardian
Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:49 UTC

Comment: These things begin, as they always do, "for the children..."


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Australia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for users aged under 16, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts.

Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and TikTok are expected to have taken steps from Wednesday to remove accounts held by users under 16 years of age in Australia, and prevent those teens from registering new accounts.

Platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to $49.5m.

There have been some teething problems with the ban's implementation. Guardian Australia has received several reports of those under 16 passing the facial age assurance tests, but the government has flagged it is not expecting the ban will be perfect from day one.

All listed platforms apart from X had confirmed by Tuesday they would comply with the ban. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said it had recently had a conversation with X about how it would comply, but the company had not communicated its policy to users.

Bluesky, an X alternative, announced on Tuesday it would also ban under-16s, despite eSafety assessing the platform as "low risk" due to its small user base of 50,000 in Australia.

Comment: Sounds reasonable on the face of it. But not because 'social media is bad'. Rather, bad actors are all over social media, manipulating anyone and everyone. And rarely being punished despite leaving enormous trails of evidence of their criminality. So this 'solution' is totalitarian rather than evidence-based and targeted.

Also, meanwhile, the kids they claim they're trying to protect are subject to ideological indoctrination in schools - and which they cannot opt out of. Who's going to 'protect' them there??

And we're also hearing that, what this new law means in practice, is that Australian adults will need to prove their age on an ongoing basis... every time they go online?

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Best of the Web: Epstein, Israel, and the CIA: How the Iran-Contra Planes landed at Les Wexner's Base

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain, and Harrison Berger
Drop Site News
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:44 UTC
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Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurpose the CIA's Iran-Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie.

This week, the New York Times awoke from its slumber to publish an extensive investigation on Jeffrey Epstein that purported to put to rest the question of how the man made his money early in his career. In it, the Times dismisses the possibility that Epstein could have worked for or adjacent to intelligence agencies. "Abundant conspiracy theories hold that Epstein worked for spy services or ran a lucrative blackmail operation, but we found a more prosaic explanation for how he built a fortune," the paper wrote.

To the paper's credit, their journalists have put into the record some details that took an impressive effort to track down. For instance, the paper reported about Epstein's business associates in the early 1980s:
Epstein had been spending extravagantly, and despite his lofty compensation at Bear Stearns and his work for [Douglas] Leese, he found himself strapped, even occasionally bouncing rent checks. Back in New York, he joined forces with John Stanley Pottinger, a lawyer who had recently left a senior post in the Justice Department. Epstein, Pottinger and Pottinger's brother rented a penthouse office in the Hotel St. Moritz on Central Park South. (The broker, Joanna Cutler, told us that Epstein initially stiffed her on the commission.)
The Times deserves credit, we suppose, for digging up that nugget from his one-time broker — but had the paper decided to look up rather than look down, they may have noticed something a bit more revelatory in their own reporting.
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The vindication and brutal punishment of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

Stephen Karganovic
Global Research
Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
From Kerstin Heusinger
Alongside the powers that be everywhere, Google's still anonymous AI is also a pious believer in the virtues of free expression. It proclaims boldly and for all the right reasons that free speech is vital to democracy, in which it also claims to believe. It reminds us also, which is good to know, that freedom of expression promotes an informed citizenry and self-governance and ensures government accountability. Furthermore, that open dialogue and debate facilitate the "marketplace of ideas," which is a vital condition for social progress and provides society with a much-needed "safety valve." And finally, that the unhindered right to express one's thoughts, beliefs, and values without fear is a fundamental aspect of human dignity and self-fulfilment. Amen, amen, amen.

Comment: Giordano Bruno:

The censoring of science

The original SOTT.net comment from that article is now just as vital:
It can be quite shocking when one realizes that the truth is often wildly unpopular and that there are dark forces that will employ every dirty trick in the book to maintain narrative control. True scientists need to drop the naiveté and recognize that they are actually on the front lines in a war for truth, and act accordingly. We're all counting on them.
Fuellmich:

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Dollar Gold

Chris Hedges: Profiting from genocide

Chris Hedges
MintPressNews
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Mr. Fish/SheerPostMurder in the Bank
Chris Hedges breaks down a damning new UN report by Francesca Albanese exposing how tech giants, arms manufacturers, banks, and universities are profiting from Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation (IBM), Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT), along with banks and financial firms such as Blackrock, insurers, real estate firms and charities, which in violation of international law are making billions from the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians.

The report, which includes a database of over 1,000 corporate entities that collaborate with Israel, demands these firms and institutions sever ties with Israel or be held accountable for complicity in war crimes.
"It describes Israel's 'forever-occupation' as the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech - providing significant supply and demand, little oversight, and zero accountability - while investors and private and public institutions profit freely."
The post-Holocaust industrialists' trials and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission laid the legal framework for recognizing the criminal responsibility of institutions and businesses that participate in international crimes. This new report makes clear that decisions made by the International Court of Justice place an obligation on entities "to not engage and/or to withdraw totally and unconditionally from any associated dealings, and to ensure that any engagement with Palestinians enables their self-determination."

Comment: Israel is a major network operation...locking in every necessity with redundancy and delivery...no stone unturned, no challenge without guarantees and framework. It is jaw-dropping...really.

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Life Preserver

Trump floundering efforts to shore up US hegemony

Michael Hudson
The Unz Review
Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump Benjamins
© ShutterstockThe Donald • The Benjamins
The National Security Strategy's Drive to Shed the Costs of Imposing Its U.S. Unipolar Empire

The one area in which the National Security Strategy makes a claim to be realistic is to recognize that the United States cannot directly be seen to impose its control by force. This task is to be delegated more to client oligarchies and their governments, by assigning responsibility (and most important, the military costs) on a regionwide basis along lines similar to how the European Union's foreign and domestic political policies have been made subordinate to NATO Cold War policy controlled by the United States.

Replacing at least the anti-Russian rhetoric of Biden's and the EU's support for the war against Russia, the NSS proposes dividing the world into spheres of influence for the major regional powers: the United States (monopolizing control of all of Latin America and the Caribbean for itself), Russia (with its Central Asian and other former Soviet republics, including what formerly was eastern Ukraine), and China over mainland Asian neighbors. A Pacific NATO-like arrangement to be shepherded (and financed) by Japan, with India as the wild card. The EU under NATO are dismissed as a waning power with little influence.
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