Leaked Docs Reveal British Intelligence’s Secret Exploitation of Palestinian Refugees

KIit Klarenberg Leaked files obtained by MintPress News detail the intensive interest taken in Palestinians both within and without the country by British intelligence operatives and Foreign Office-funded and directed cutouts over many years. Collectively, the material leaves little room for doubt that the British government has long sought to covertly surveil, infiltrate, and manipulate…

Haiti: USAID-Linked Collaborators Eye Diaspora’s Remittances for Taxation and Redirection

Travis Ross Kesner Pharel, chief executive director of the USAID-linked consulting firm Group Croissance, helped organize the Miami summit on redirecting remittances. The Haitian Times recently published an article by Dieudonné Joachim on a “groundbreaking summit,” held in Miami, where “experts and influential business leaders convened” to discuss the “untapped potential of remittances” from Haiti’s diaspora. The “International…

Xi’s European Tour

Orçun Göktürk Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe for the first time in 5 years. Xi’s visit to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10 occurred in the shadow of the Ukraine war. Coming on the heels of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China last month, the visit is seen as a…

The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous Nations Struggle for Sovereignty

Renate Bridenthal Inuit protest Nunavut Canada free Palestine Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”. In January, three months into Israel’s attack on Gaza, a group people in…

Libya: Tripoli Coordinates Politically with Russia, Prepares Militarily with the West

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received a Libyan delegation that includes the representative of the Presidential Council, Abdullah Al-Lafi, the person in charge of managing the affairs of the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Al-Taher Al-Baour, accompanied by the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Muhammad…

A Mirror of Our Immediate Future: Green Imperialism and Palestine

Erica Jung and Calvin Wu Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, an Israeli nuclear installation southeast of the city of Dimona. (Wikimedia Commons) The assassination of more than 14,000 Palestinian children in the span of mere months and the deliberate starvation of two million people by Zionist occupiers with the full support of western governments assault…

BRICS+: The Priority is Dedollarization

F.M. Shakil China, the second-largest global economy, is rapidly reducing its ownership of US Treasury bonds while simultaneously boosting its gold reserves. The upcoming BRICS meeting in Russia will give top priority to the dedollarization agenda and take steps to further decrease the dependence on the US currency in cross-border trade between the nations. BRICS…

Cambodia Doesn’t Owe Washington an Explanation Over China Ties

Brian Berletic Associated Press (AP) in a May 8, 2024 article titled, “Chinese warships have been docked in Cambodia for 5 months, but government says it’s not permanent,” attempts to depict the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia as covering up growing Chinese-Cambodian military cooperation. Satellite images of Chinese warships docked at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base for several…

The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem

Pepe Escobar UNIT ecosystem offers people around the world apolitical money that can be freely bought and sold or used as currency for payments via any open payment and clearing system. The process of de-dollarization is progressing steadily within BRICS countries and the global economy, but further efforts are necessary to speed up the transition,…

Sayyed Nasrallah: “Israel Faces Two Options – Defeat or the Abyss”

Al Manar “These theatrics that we are witnessing nowadays should not deceive anyone, as Washington stands with Israel [no matter what],” Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah on Monday stressed that the Israeli enemy is facing a historical dilemma in Gaza– if it halts the war, it will be a major defeat, and it will move…

US-China Rivalry Riles Tiny Solomon Islands

Mick Hall USS Sampson creates wakes while performing “S” turns off the coast of the Solomon Islands in December 2016. The missile destroyer was deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of Third Fleet into the region. (U.S. Navy, Bryan Jackson) The Solomon…

Strategic Setbacks for US, Israel as the Resistance Axis Gains Ground in Syria

Khalil Nasrallah Recent resistance operations in eastern Syria have established new rules of engagement that constrain both Washington and Tel Aviv’s once-untethered freedom to operate in this strategic theater. For several years, the presence of the region’s Axis of Resistance forces in Syria has remained vulnerable to US and Israeli attacks across the country, from east…

Israel’s War on Gaza is Destroying IMEC’s Viability

Mohamad Hasan Sweidan The Resistance Axis seeks not only to ‘boil the Israeli frog’ but also, incrementally, to unravel the US’ biggest geopolitical projects in West Asia, including the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor. The Gaza war’s impact on Washington’s geopolitical agenda in West Asia is becoming starker each passing week. The region’s Axis of Resistance counter-offensives…

At the Crossroads: Brazil in the Face of BRICS Expansion

Fabiano Mielniczuk The option for disengagement from BRICS is gaining adherents among Brazilian diplomats and is being actively promoted by sectors of Brazilian organized civil society, especially those NGOs and think tanks that receive financial support from European and American institutions. The engagement of these sectors in the G20 events during Brazil’s Presidency of 2024…

Why the West is Backing the Crisis in the DR Congo

BreakThrough News 12 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed after two separate bomb attacks hit refugee camps where thousands of internally displaced people are sheltering. The fighting between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, a proxy force backed by Rwanda, has displaced over 150,000 people. Kambale…

CSIS Admits Russia’s Massive & Growing Military Industrial Output

The New Atlas – US think tank CSIS admits previous claims of Russia’s flagging military industrial output were inaccurate; – CSIS reports massive production numbers of Russian tanks, artillery guns and shells, as well as drones, missiles, and electronic warfare systems; – CSIS recommendations are decoupled with reality and the prerequisites required to expand military…

Xi’s Euro Trip: China-EU Ties Grows Stronger Despite US Meddling

BreakThrough News Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first trip to Europe in five years, and the US corporate-owned media is seeking to portray the tour as a sinister attempt by China to drive a wedge between the US and EU. Tings Chak, a researcher at the Tricontinental Institute & a member of Dongsheng…

Jemima Pierre: Decolonising Haiti

The Battleground Gaza may own today’s headlines. With good reason. But Haiti would come a close second in any misery index survey. Mired in an endless state of anarchy, its dystopian situation has become a blur to most international news media, except broadcasters like Al Jazeera. It’s not rocket science to figure out why. Enter…