The Most Important Corporate Subsidy Battle of 2025 Boondoggle
Climate/Environment
Records show Big Sugar lobbyists are working on plans for an Everglades-area mine Seeking Rents
Threats and killings increase in the area where agribusiness expands in the Amazon rainforest Brasil de Fato
Pandemics
Early adult death rates remain higher than expected post-pandemic News-Medical
China?
Fretful of Trump, Philippines floats missile compromise with China Asia Times
Old Blighty
‘We’d go absolutely nuts’: PM warned of Labour fight if he backs huge oilfield The Guardian
O Canada
Under Leader-for-Life @ElizabethMay, the Green Party of Canada is considering a proposal to have CSIS, Canada’s spy agency, screen candidates for the party’s leadership in future leadership contests.
As Elizabeth May undoubtedly knows, CSIS has a long and sordid record of lying… pic.twitter.com/pQVRbsgKfp
— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) February 1, 2025
European Disunion
Europe’s gas crisis: looking west as supplies dwindle Daily Wrap
Europe in the dark, US to drive energy future Financial Mirror
Will the Nord Steam gas pipelines be turned back on soon? Bne Intellinews
Learning from shipwrecked sailors: Three ways Europeans can weather the Trump storm European Council on Foreign Relations
Founder of SJD giving instructions to Sweden Democrats on how to handle issues about Palestine.
The equivalents of AIPAC are hard at work globally manipulating your domestic and foreign policies. pic.twitter.com/Y54s4wzouN
— Chasing Sunsets (@expat_vibes) August 22, 2024
Move Over, St Patrick New Lines Magazine
Syraqistan
Let Donald Trump make Gaza great again – opinion Jerusalem Post. A member of the board of trustees of the US Holocaust Museum calls for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Rebuffing US resettlement bid, Russia affirms Palestinians’ right to Gaza Anadolu Agency
Trump spoke to Egyptian president about plan to evict Palestinians from Gaza Axios
Sick and wounded children begin crossing from Gaza to Egypt in first opening in months The New Arab
Assad’s Fall Sparks Fear and Reflection in Egypt New Lines Magazine
New U.S. Intel Chief Slams Obama Era Policy of Supporting Al Qaeda in Syria: What Was CIA Operation Timber Sycamore? Military Watch
The Muslim Brotherhood and the need to recalibrate the compass GeoPolitiQ
Here’s How Trump Can Make a Strong Deal With Iran The American Conservative
Africa
Trump says US conducted airstrikes against senior ISIS terrorists in Somalia Anadolu Agency
French troops complete withdrawal from Chad after 70 years Reuters
Mali: TotalEnergies, the French hydrocarbon giant, leaves the country
— Paweł Wójcik 🦋 (@SaladinAlDronni) January 30, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Exclusive: U.S. wants Ukraine to hold elections following a ceasefire, says Trump envoy Reuters
Ukraine’s defense sector in disarray at crucial moment in the war Washington Post
❗️Huge crowds of Ukrainians civilian protestors have surrounded Zelensky’s office in Kiev demanding his resignation!
💥They chant “Zelensky get out!”.
👏It’s starting… pic.twitter.com/qK1LHQQlXP
— 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 (@SMO_VZ) February 1, 2025
Russian Fuel and Energy Complex – Reliability, Sustainability, Development karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Norway releases Russian-crewed ship after cable damage investigation Euronews
South of the Border
Chevron’s operations in Venezuela will continue, as US relations shift Al Mayadeen
Trump 2.0
Musk’s Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Doomsday Scenario (David in Friday Harbor). Important and Lambert will have more in a post tomorrow.
Trump’s ball of confusion bedeviling global markets Asia Times
Canada, Mexico announce retaliatory tariffs against US; China turns to WTO The Straits Times
New US President, Same Pursuit of Primacy: Cutting Through the Stunts & Rhetoric The New Atlas (Video). Starting at 16:30 Brian Berletic shows the similarities between many Trump stunts in his first presidency and now.
REPORTER: “Given your efforts to reduce the number of federal employees, are there any concerns about protecting the public ?”
TRUMP: “They’re all replaceable. We want them to go into the private sector. Our dream is to have almost everyone in the private sector.”. pic.twitter.com/ojbv0VXXmV
— Global Vissions (@GlobalVissions) February 1, 2025
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Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way The Economist. What happens when the last of the red tape is cut and Musk and friends want even more profit?
This is the way https://t.co/ia9dI42Re6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025
DC Airport Collision
Data from the deadliest U.S. air accident in a generation show conflicting altitude readings AP
Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government AP
Corporate-style understaffing (cost cutting, profit maximizing, labor disciplining), not “woke” DEI staffing, is the capitalist scourge destroying workers, industries, supply chains, & safety systems across the economy. Workers have told us this for yrs. Writing more @TheRealNews pic.twitter.com/rXQkzPYGJp
— Maximillian Alvarez (@maximillian_alv) February 1, 2025
Antitrust
After Antitrust Phenomenal World. “The recent priority on antitrust enforcement obscures more direct solutions to wealth inequality: taxation and regulation.”
Democrats en déshabillé
Patrick Lawrence: Where Have All the Liberals Gone? Scheerpost
Ken Martin, who no one has ever heard of, was just elected chair of the Democratic Party. Ken Martin is of course a genocidal Zionist who has vowed that the US will forever and unconditionally support the Israeli death-cult: pic.twitter.com/xOKvklgCOR
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) February 1, 2025
Democrats accused of corruption look to Trump for clemency The Hill. Commentary:
Fascism is the inevitable conclusion to capitalism. Liberals are capitalists/imperialists. The systemic developments of monopoly/finance capital being buoyed by neoliberalism, which served as a bridge to corporate governance & overt fascism, is a bipartisan phenomenon in the US. https://t.co/6tQXpm9hG6
— Hampton Institute (@HamptonThink) February 1, 2025
Imperial Collapse Watch
Mark Sleboda: Is Trump Shattering the Unity of the Western World? Dialogue Works (Video)
Trump is wreaking havoc at USAID. Is the goal to shut it down? Politico. Discusses possibility of folding it into the State Department.
Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network? The Grayzone
Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’ The Guardian
The layers of irony in the U.S. ending its own foreign interference programs like USAID because it’s somehow propagandized itself into thinking it was good-hearted “DEI” foreign aid are literally too rich to unpack.
Anyhow the end-result is that you end up in the hilarious… https://t.co/UpLgeoXhy9
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 31, 2025
Groves of Academe
In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter? Law and Political Economy Project
AI
DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts Semianalysis
What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War Consortium News
DeepSeek and the Strategic Limits of U.S. Sanctions The Wire
DeepSeek disappears from Italy Google and Apple app stores Ansa
Immigration
All is quiet in Omaha Art Cullen’s Notebook. “Will they actually raid the food processing plants?”
Ice Agents in Churches ‘Does Not Bode Well for the Future of Religion’ in America Texas Observer
Digital Watch
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of their pransings Internal exile
WhatsApp says its users targeted by Israeli spyware company Paragon Al Jazeera
Forget Silicon – DNA Might Be the Future of Quantum Computing SciTech Daily
Healthcare?
Health Care Analyst’s Focus is to Make Employers an Offer They Can’t Refuse HEALTH CARE un-covered
Our Famously Free Press
FCC Probe Into NPR, PBS Denounced as ‘Attack on the Freedom of the Press’ Common Dreams
With Zero Evidence, NPR Suggests Trump May ‘Work for Working Class’ in Second Term FAIR
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BBC: the voice of the viscerally anti-Russian British Government Gilbert Doctorow
Class Warfare
In Grim Memo to Staff, NLRB Counsel Says ‘I Cannot Promise You Everything Is Going to Be OK’ Common Dreams
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