✊ Progressive News | 03 February 2025

International

• Tricontinental The Life Expectancy of Palestinians Fell by 11.5 Years in the First Three Months of the Genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)
• Transnational Foundation TFF PressInfo # 763: Greater America and other Western self-isolation.
• The Socialist Program China’s DeepSeek Develops AI Model Like ChatGPT Without Newest Chips—And It’s Free
• Tarik Cyril Amar The Worst Laid Plans
• Tarik Cyril Amar The Geopolitics of a Tectonic Value Shift
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “DeepSeek: Lessons for America” Dated January 29, 2025
• Progressive International “Our Most Urgent Task”
• Progressive International PI Briefing No. 3 Monroe 2.0
• Progressive International Barefoot Miners: A Journey to Victory from the Soma Coal Basin to Ankara
• Progressive International PI Briefing No. 4 History in The Hague
• Glenn Diesen Did the US Declare the End of the Unipolar World Order?
• First Thought Silicon Valley Is Building The Future Of War… And It’s Horrifying
• Breakthrough News DeepSeek Sends Panic Across Silicon Valley: Is China the Future of AI?
• Thinkers Forum Why Should Everyone Be on Alert for Elon Musk? Explained by Yanis Varoufakis
• Thinkers Forum The West’s Biggest Mistake on China Kishore Mahbubani
• Thinkers Forum The West’s Biggest Mistake on China Kishore Mahbubani
• Thinkers Forum China’s Strategy to Trump 2.0 Jeffrey Sachs, Zhang Weiwei & Charles Li
• Thinkers Forum Trump Took the Helm, EU Crossed Its Fingers
• Think BRICS BRICS vs. WEF Exposed: The Hidden War Over Global Power
• Think BRICS If You QUESTION Global Alliances, Watch This! - Scott Ritter
• Reports on China MARCO RUBIO ADMITS: U. S. dominance of the world IS OVER!
• Novara Media Everything They Tell You About the Economy is WRONG Aaron Meets garyseconomics
• Novara Media Tech Oligarchs In Turmoil Over DeepSeek
• Novara Media The Real Reason There Is A Loneliness Epidemic Ash Sarkar Meets Shon Faye
• New Economic Thinking Fixing Global Debt
• Michael Robets Blog Davos 2025: Trump v Von der Leyen
• Michael Robets Blog AI going DeepSeek
• Diplomatify 3 Things You Didn’t Know about BRICS But Should
• Diplomatify DeepSeek and AI Multipolarity - ASEAN’s New Dilemma
• Telesur English Trump again threatens tariffs on BRICS to prevent them from replacing the U. S. dollar
• Planet: Critical Climate Violence Peter Schwartzstein
• FridayEveryday Trump destroys US global interference op
• FridayEveryday As US stocks hit by meltdown, DeepSeek, Bytedance launch new ventures
• CGTN U. S. tariff policy: What it means for world trade
• CGTN Expert: U. S. new tariffs could fuel global economic instability
• South China Morning Post Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Canada and Mexico
• South China Morning Post How the world is celebrating the Lunar New Year
• South China Morning Post Atomic ‘Doomsday Clock’ ticks closer to midnight
• Channel News Asia China to file lawsuit at WTO over Trump’s trade tariffs
• Channel News Asia Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China rattle markets

China

• Transnational Foundation China’s Strategy to Trump 2.0
• Geopolitical Economy Report China’s shocking DeepSeek AI pops US Big Tech monopoly bubble
• Geopolitical Economy Report Tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly: US plans to block China’s competition & ‘steal’ engineers
• Wave Media Biden Sets a China Trap for Trump Before Leaving Office
• Wave Media Trump’s Subtle Surrender to China in Tariff War
• The China Academy Happy Chinese New Year!
• The China Academy DeepSeek’s Geopolitical Impacts
• The China Academy China’s Property Market, Explained
• Novara Media How Chinese AI Start-Up DeepSeek SHOCKED US Rivals
• Global Times Green industries emerge in Yancheng
• Center for China and Globalisation CCG senior fellow Andy Mok on prospect of China-US relations
• Democracy Now! DeepSeek vs. Silicon Valley: In Shock to Big Tech, Chinese Startup Overtakes U. S. AI
• T-House Truth over lies: U. S. reporter’s bold words at Potala Palace
• T-House Keeping up with smart factories
• T-House TikTok refugees are head over heels about Chinese culture
• Shanghai Eye Shining Shanghai lights up Jing’an, celebrating Spring Festival!
• Shanghai Eye Landmark photovoltaic project in Xinjiang Taklimakan Desert connected to grid
• Shanghai Eye 104 million C for 1, 066 seconds! China’s artificial sun sets new world record
• Shanghai Eye Massive floats and hundreds of performers light up Hong Kong’s night parade of CNY
• FridayEveryday Hong Kong building 60km walking trail around the island
• New China TV Observing the Spring Festival traditions
• New China TV Workers brave cold to guard world’s largest UHV converter station amid Spring Festival holiday
• New China TV GLOBALink Int’l travelers impressed by China-Laos Railway during Spring Festival travel rush
• New China TV GLOBALink Vietnamese tourists flock to China through Hekou Port during Spring Festival holiday
• New China TV Observing the Spring Festival traditions
• South China Morning Post China denounces US tariffs, vows WTO action
• South China Morning Post Dancing robots take the stage at China’s Spring Festival Gala performance
• South China Morning Post Xi Jinping calls on Chinese people to ‘work hard with great tenacity’

South Asia

• Think BRICS The Geopolitical Ripple Effect of India-China Flights
• South China Morning Post At least 30 killed in Kumbh Mela stampede
• Channel News Asia Political crisis in Pakistan intensifies amid govt crackdown on protests against new disinformation

Southeast Asia

• South China Morning Post Is it still safe to travel to Thailand?
• Channel News Asia Myanmar military extends state of emergency by six months
• Channel News Asia Myanmar junta extends state of emergency to support election preparations
• Channel News Asia Myanmar’s military government struggling 4 years after coup: Analyst
• Al Jazeera Rohingya teacher runs a school for refugee children in Malaysia

East Asia

• Telesur English South Korea People marched both in support & against former President Yoon
• South China Morning Post Truck driver missing for 3 days in Japan sinkhole

West Asia (Middle East)

• Electronic Intifada News highlights on day 12 of the ceasefire in Gaza, with Nora Barrows-Friedman
• AJ+ It’s Bisan From Gaza, And I Can’t Recognize Rafah
• Glenn Diesen Israel Lost the War - What are the Consequences?
• Breakthrough News Live Israel Unleashes Fury on West Bank Days Into Gaza Ceasefire
• Breakthrough News Israel Launches Genocidal ‘Gaza Method’ on the Occupied West Bank With Trump’s Blessing
• Breakthrough News Guerrilla Warfare Lessons from Gaza: Why Resistance Survived Genocide, w/ Justin Podur
• Breakthrough News ‘We Refuse to Be Exterminated’: Gazan Journalist Describes Historic Return to the North
• Double Down News The One Video Israel Doesn’t Want You To See
• Double Down News Netanyahu’s Gaza Disaster: The SHOCKING Truth Behind Israel’s Defeat
• India & Global Left MOHAMMAD MARANDI EXPOSES TRUTH About Israel-Hamas Ceasefire!
• India & Global Left Will the Ceasefire REALLY Last? Mohammad Marandi Weighs In!
• India & Global Left Former US Official Reveals SHOCKING Truth About Middle East Policy
• India & Global Left Syria’s Collapse The Shocking Truth About Assad’s Regime
• India & Global Left Kevork Almassian: US-ISRAEL wants to BALKANISE SYRIA through HTS
• Democracy Now! Netanyahu to Meet Trump in D. C. as Israel Escalates War on West Bank Amid Gaza Ceasefire
• Al Mayadeen English The Israeli war on Gaza in numbers
• Al Mayadeen English ‘Era of victory’ indeed: Southern Lebanese woman’s defiant words
• Al Mayadeen English Defiant southern Lebanese woman: Normalize elsewhere, US claims to ‘help’; poorly arms Lebanon
• Telesur English Palestine, ministry warns of Israel bill to buy Palestinians lands
• Telesur English Palestine, families of hospitalized children denounce destruction of Al-Shifa hospital
• New China TV Syria’s interim president announces legislative, political roadmap
• Al Jazeera Palestinian family reunites in north Gaza for first time in Israel’s war Al Jazeera Newsfeed
• Al Jazeera Palestinian patients enter Egypt as Rafah crossing opens after nine months

Russia

• Glenn Diesen Russia Prepares to Negotiate With the US
• Glenn Diesen Trump’s threats will not work on Russia
• Thinkers Forum Why Did Trump Tiptoe Around Russia During Inauguration?
• Neutrality Studies CHECKMATE: Russia-Iran Treaty SHOCKS The West Dr. Pietro Shakarian
• Middle East Eye Soumaya Ghannoushi: Why the fight for Palestine is ours MEE Opinion
• Middle East Eye Palestinians express ‘difficult emotions’ as they return to the north
• Middle East Eye Who was Mohammed El-Deif - Hamas’ Military Chief and October 7 architect
• Middle East Eye Gaza: A triumph to the human spirit Op-ed
• Middle East Eye Israeli prison ‘conditions were extremely difficult’ says released Palestinian prisoner
• Middle East Eye Israeli settlers burn down a mosque in the occupied West Bank
• Telesur English Russia dismisses Trump’s threats on BRICS and dollar sanctions

Europe

• Transnational Foundation The Danish government’s paranoid worldview and mindless militarism could cost each family about US $ 8, 000 per year and only bring the country closer to war!
• Transnational Foundation President Trump 2.0 and a Ukrainian Peace
• Tarik Cyril Amar European “Boots on the Ground, ” Again…
• Glenn Diesen Multipolarity: Glenn Diesen on the end of Ukraine, and Europe in a Trumpist New World
• Glenn Diesen Hungary’s Role in Great Power Politics
• Glenn Diesen End of Neutrality in Europe
• Think BRICS Discover Belarus: The BRICS Nation You Overlooked
• Novara Media Pro-Palestine Journalist Arrested In Switzerland
• Neutrality Studies Trickle-Down Hegemony: How The US Controls The European Mind Kajsa Ekis Ekman
• Neutrality Studies Europe’s Worst War Propaganda Since World War II. A Continent On The Brink Dr. Dieter Reinisch
• Neutrality Studies Aaron Maté on Dem Support for Ukraine War
• Double Down News UK’s SHOCKING Authoritarian Move to SILENCE Palestine
• Al Jazeera EU condemns Georgia police crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators

Africa

• Progressive International Congolese Solidarity Campaign Press Statement
• Breakthrough News Live DR Congo Protests Throw a Wrench in the Western-Backed War of Pillage
• Breakthrough News ‘The Israel of Africa’: How Rwanda Became the West’s Proxy in Congo’s Brutal War
• Breakthrough News How the West Uses Rwanda to Loot the DR Congo’s Riches
• Empire Watch The Empire Strikes Back: Africa’s Fight for Sovereignty with Eugene Puryear
• Empire Watch China vs the West in Africa: What’s the real story? with Eugene Puryear
• Empire Watch Sudan’s Crisis: How the West Sabotaged Democracy with Eugene Puryear
• Africa Stream Eduardo Mondlane Remembered
• Africa Stream Air Burkina’s New Aeroplane
• Africa Stream What’s Happening In Congo Is A Proxy War!
• Africa Stream Their ‘Aid’ Just A Fraction Of Their Loot!
• Africa Stream How Uganda Has Destabilised DRC
• Africa Stream F. M. On DRC Crisis: ‘Rwandan Exception To Int’l Law’
• Democracy Now! Gold, Guns & Genocide: How the UAE Profits from RSF War Crimes in Sudan
• Democracy Now! “War of Plunder”: How Rwanda Has Fueled War in DRC as Western Countries Look Away
• Democracy Now! Egypt, Jordan Reject Trump Plan to “Clean Out” Gaza; Palestinians Return to N. Gaza in Historic Day
• Al Jazeera Could conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo expand across region? Inside Story

North America

• Transnational Foundation Rubio’s reasoning as a reason for optimism? A leopard cannot change its spots!
• The Socialist Program Trump’s ‘DEI’ Purge: a Trojan Horse to Overturn Civil Rights and Erase History
• The Socialist Program Trump Targets Student Protesters Preview
• Seymour Hersh TRUMP’S FIRST COVID MISTAKE
• Second Thought Why Is The US Always At War?
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “It Should Be Called A Purge” dated January 29, 2025 (BONUS)
• Democracy at Work Economic Update: Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Campaigns
• Democracy at Work Special Message from Professor Richard Wolff
• Democracy at Work Redneck Gone Green: What is to be done?
• Breakthrough News LA Wildfire Survivors at Risk of Homelessness
• Breakthrough News Report: Billionaires Now Making Up To $100 Million a Day
• Breakthrough News The Fight Against ICE: Trump Raids Galvanize Immigrant Defense Networks Nationwide
• Breakthrough News Trump’s ‘DEI’ Purge: a Trojan Horse to Overturn Civil Rights and Erase History
• Breakthrough News Altadena Fire Survivor Speaks on Government Negligence
• Neutrality Studies CIA Whistleblower EXPOSES US Security State John Kiriakou
• Neutrality Studies Ex-State Dept. Chief REVEALS Hidden War Making Process Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
• Hakim The Forever Wars of America
• Empire Watch Trump 2025: Imperialism in Overdrive with Eugene Puryear
• Empire Watch Gaza Ceasefire: What’s Really Behind the US Strategy? with Eugene Puryear
• Democracy Now! Deadly D. C. Plane Crash Comes Months After Congress Ignored Warning About Traffic at Reagan Airport
• Democracy Now! “Anxiety and Fear”: Trump Militarizes Border, Ramps Up Deportation Flights, Halts Refugee Admissions
• Al Mayadeen English Trump’s ceasefire clip decoded: How he really feels about Gaza
• Al Mayadeen English Trump makes America colonial again
• Al Mayadeen English TikTok boosts censorship in the US to secure spot in app stores
• Al Mayadeen English MIT hides its tracks after complicity with “Israel” was exposed
• Shanghai Eye ‘Absurd!’ Americans, Canadians and Mexicans react to Trump’s latest tariff hikes
• Shanghai Eye ‘We will react’ Canada, Mexico warns of retaliation as US Trump to impose tax starting Feb.1
• Shanghai Eye Drone shows burning and aircraft parts on road after Philadelphia small plane crash
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) Undocumented Migrants Waiting to Cross Into U. S. Now Stuck in Mexican Border Towns
• South China Morning Post No survivors in American Airlines jet crash in Washington
• South China Morning Post US commercial plane crashes into military helicopter in Washington
• South China Morning Post IDIOT’S GUIDE TO TRUMP’S TARIFFS
• Al Jazeera US immigration raids spark fear among farmworkers, risking labour shortages and rising food prices

Latin America and The Caribbean

• Geopolitical Economy Report Trump attacks Colombia, and it fights back: ‘We are not a colony’!
• People's Dispatch Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza wants to be Ecuador’s next president
• Democracy Now! Sheinbaum vs. Trump: How Mexico’s Popular First Woman President Is Navigating Hostile U. S. Policy
• Al Mayadeen English Exclusive Cuba’s President on ceasefire agreement, heroism of Palestinians
• Telesur English Venezuela, 3rd National Public Consultation to be held on February 2
• Telesur English Cuba: Pres. rejects U. S. decision to send illegal migrants to Gtmo
• Telesur English Brazil: Govt. Is willing to respond reciprocally if the U. S. imposes tariffs on his imports
• Telesur English Venezuela 1st National Public Consultation of 2025 is underway
• Shanghai Eye Panamanians protest Marco Rubio’s visit amid Trump’s threat to ‘take over’ Panama Canal

Miscellaneous

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