Geopolitics
There are some videos that defy definition: Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano
5 May 2025 Definitely watch to the end!
Month: May 2025
Geopolitics
Alex Vershinin – Ukraine’s battlefield position is deteriorating fast
In-depth analysis of the condition of Russian and Ukrainian military forces. Ret.) Lt. Col. Alex Vershinin retired after 20 years of Army service, including eight years as an armor officer with four combat tours in […]
Geopolitics
Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah – Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing
Three physicians who have worked in Gaza since the genocide began write about Israel’s strategy to starve the population. Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who has made frequent trips to Palestinian refugee […]
Geopolitics
Felix Helberg – How Postwar Germany Fell in Love With Israel
‘As Israeli tanks rolled into the Sinai in the 1967 war, West Germany saw itself marching alongside them. Even former Nazis could identify with Israeli expansionism — and used this support to absolve their own […]
National Politics
Hannah Bunting – UK local elections delivered record-breaking fragmentation of the vote
The two party oligopoly in British politics is breaking apart at the seams. Hannah Bunting is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative British Politics and Co-director of The Elections Centre at the University of Exeter. Cross-posted from […]
Climate Crisis
Politico – EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought
Much of the soil in central and eastern Europe has dried out, risking harvest failure. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
The Irish Times: Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti prevented by Israel from travelling to speak at Dublin festival
Barghouti remains in Israel unable to leave as authorities have failed to renew his travel documents Read HERE
Geopolitics
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges
Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Gross domestic product in the 1st quarter of 2025 down 0.2% year on year
Gross domestic product (GDP), 1st quarter of 2025 0.2% on the previous quarter (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted) -0.4% on the same quarter a year earlier (price adjusted) -0.2% on the same quarter a year […]
Geopolitics