Geopolitics
Month: March 2025
National Politics
truthout – Judge Halts Trump Administration’s Attempts to Deport Mahmoud Khalil
Trump is promising more arrests and deportations of students who have protested in support of Palestine. Read HERE Mahmoud Khalil NYC detention protest. SWinxy, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Climate Crisis
BBC: Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
But COPs are great. Some people earn lots of money with them. And they produce headlines about saving the world that move us to tears. A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of […]
EU politics
Aurelien – Trying to Understand the World
Why would anyone want to defend Europe? And so, by common consent, Europe faces its gravest collective political crisis since 1945. And so, by equally common consent, its political class has never been so weak […]
National Politics
Lora Lumpe – When anti-war protesters are called national security threats
Is this what VP Vance meant by free speech ‘in retreat’? Case of detained green card holder shows how ‘brittle’ our rights are here, too Lora Lumpe is the CEO of the Quincy Institute for […]
Geopolitics
Craig Murray – The Moral Balance
To Russians this feels a lot like 1941. With Europe in the grip of full-on anti-Russian propaganda Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig […]
Fake News
Glenn Diesen – Collapse of Kursk: Narratives versus Reality
With the Kursk operation collapsing, so is the NATO proxy war Glenn Diesen is a professor of political science at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), with a focus on geoeconomics, Russian foreign policy and […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: New orders in manufacturing in January 2025: -7.0% on the previous month
New orders in manufacturing: January 2025 (in real terms, provisional): -7.0% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -2.6% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) December 2024 (in real terms, revised): […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Exports in January 2025: -2.5% on December 2024
Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), January 2025129.2 billion euros-2.5% on the previous month-0.1% on the same month a year earlier Imports (calendar and seasonally adjusted imports of goods), January 2025113.1 billion euros+1.2% […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Production in January 2025: -1.6% on the same month a year earlier
Production in industry January 2025 (in real terms, provisional): +2.0% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -1.6% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) December 2024 (in real terms, revised): -1.5% […]