✊ Progressive News | 10 February 2025

International

• Tricontinental Let Us Find Our Lost Diamonds: The Sixth Newsletter (2025)
• Geopolitical Economy Report Tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly: US plans to block China’s competition & ‘steal’ engineers
• Geopolitical Economy Report Trump’s tariffs could cause huge global crisis, warns economist Michael Hudson
• Geopolitical Economy Report Trump plans to ‘take over’ Gaza, expel Palestinians & build real estate his family could profit from
• Geopolitical Economy Report How Trump’s tariffs will accelerate US decline
• Breakthrough News DeepSeek: US Failed to Stop Chinese Innovation & Now Wants to Protect Big Tech
• Progressive International PI Briefing No. 5 Every human life is a life
• Transnational Foundation A Potential New Battle: UN vs US over Greenland and the Panama Canal
• Transnational Foundation BACK TO FEUDALISM: TRUMP’S STYLE
• Transnational Foundation The Death Throes of Globalism?
• Tarik Cyril Amar USAID, Ukraine, and Proxy War Lies
• Jacobin What Happened to the American Dream? with Matt Karp
• Glenn Diesen Eurasia Rising
• Glenn Diesen NATO Expansionism and the Collapse of Pan-European Security
• Wave Media DeepSeek: NVIDIA’s Karma for Lying
• Wave Media Why Trump is Begging China for Help?
• Wave Media China: Gaza and Panama Aren’t Trump’s Business
• Thinkers Forum COVID-19 ‘Very Likely’ Originated from a US Lab Jeffrey Sachs
• Thinkers Forum DeepSeek: China’s Response to US Sanctions
• Thinkers Forum DeepSeek: AI with Chinese Characteristics｜Yanis Varoufakis
• Think BRICS Pepe Escobar: SURPRISING Truth About BRICS and Global Affairs
• Think BRICS Comandante Farinazzo EXPOSES BRICS’ Fatal Flaw: The Soft Power Crisis
• Think BRICS The Case for UN Reform: Why BRICS and the Global South Must Lead the Change
• The China Academy Deepseek: China’s Response to US Sanctions
• The China Academy Deepseek Founder: “We’re done following. It’s time to lead”
• New Economic Thinking The Dignity Deficit: Inequality, Work, & Recognition
• Novara Media Donald Trump Flinches In Trade War
• Novara Media Yanis Varoufakis on Gaza, Trump’s Trade Wars, and DeepSeek
• Neutrality Studies REVEALED: NATO Targets Its OWN Population With Cognitive Warfare! Dr. Jonas Tögel
• Neutrality Studies NATO’s Plans To SACRIFICE Europe For US Hegemony Dr. Jonas Tögel
• Middle East Eye What is The Hague Group? Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla Interview
• Michael Robets Blog Trump’s tariff tantrums
• Michael Robets Blog Trade tariffs as economic policy: the debate
• Empire Watch Breaking Anti-China Propaganda: Can the US Change Course? with Eugene Puryear
• Diplomatify The Most Insane Stories From Diplomacy
• Al Mayadeen English Julia Sebutinde: Pro-‘Israel’ judge now leads the ICJ
• T-House Trump’s tariff threats send ripples worldwide
• T-House Trump tariff policy kicks in: How much will it cost the world?
• Planet: Critical The Smallest Parts Craig Slee
• FridayEveryday Trump destroys US global interference op
• Channel News Asia Markets react to US tariffs
• Channel News Asia Why are governments cracking down on Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek?

China

• Thinkers Forum RMB Set to Replace Dollar in 10 Years? Jeffrey Sachs
• Thinkers Forum US: At War Every Day; China: None Jeffrey Sachs
• Reports on China Does China REALLY sell fentanyl to drug cartels?
• Reports on China 20 years in jail for using DeepSeek! USA goes NUTS over Chinese AI
• Neutrality Studies DRUG WAR 2.0: Will The USA Go To War With China Over Fentanyl? David T. Pyne
• Global Times China is not a danger to Panama Canal; the only closure was caused by a US invasion
• Global Times How will DeepSeek’s emergence impact tech competition between China and the US?
• Global Times Protect the ocean: Crafting eco-friendly scarves from recycled plastic bottles
• Diplomatify China’s Surge To Superpower - 5 Trends The World Can’t Ignore
• Diplomatify Is China ALREADY A Global SUPERPOWER Today?
• T-House Harbin Asian Winter Games: Ice-snow sports and economy in sync
• T-House China’s resilience: Turning tariffs into driving force
• T-House Is DeepSeek America’s ‘Sputnik Moment’? The U. S. Anxiety and the Danger Behind It
• T-House Spring Festival Travel: Trip CEO on boom in holiday trips
• T-House China’s DeepSeek challenges AI economics with cost-cutting innovation
• South China Morning Post Hongkongers lose HK$200 million to scams in a week
• Shanghai Eye A look at China’s AI-powered plant that produces Chinese rocket components
• Shanghai Eye 29 people remain missing after a landslide in SW China’s Sichuan as all-out rescue ongoing
• CGTN Rescue operations underway after landslide strikes SW China
• CGTN President Xi calls for promoting full revitalization of NE China

Southeast Asia

• Progressive International Metabolic Fractures in Piyungan: The Waste Emergency in Yogyakarta
• Telesur English Asia—Pacific: UNICEF warns of high pollution in the regions
• Channel News Asia Success of Johor-Singapore SEZ must be driven by private sector: Singapore DPM
• Channel News Asia Johor aiming to be Malaysia’s economic powerhouse by 2030, says chief minister in CNA exclusive
• Channel News Asia Govt will continue to enhance CPF scheme to boost Singaporeans’ retirement adequacy: PM Wong
• Channel News Asia CMIO race model has worked well for us: K Shanmugam
• Channel News Asia Race, religion most likely to result in anger against particular communities if mishandled: IPS poll
• Channel News Asia Chan Chun Sing warns against vigilantism from adults in school bullying incidents

East Asia

• Empire Watch Will the US Wardrive shift to Taiwan backfire? with 鍾翔宇 Xiangyu
• Empire Watch What’s behind the Media blackout on Taiwan’s 150k Strong Protest with Xiangyu
• Empire Watch How Rednote Shattered US Stereotypes About China with 鍾翔宇 Xiangyu
• Empire Watch US Provocation in Taiwan: an unwinnable strategy? with 鍾翔宇 Xiangyu
• Shanghai Eye North Korea marks founding day of its army as Kim vows to advance north’s nuclear capabilities
• Shanghai Eye North Korea’s Kim vows to further develop nuclear forces, criticizes US-Japan-SKorea military co-op
• Shanghai Eye Philippines vice president resigned to facing impeachment trial later this year
• Channel News Asia Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she was already prepared for impeachment
• Al Jazeera South Korea, US holds joint military drills despite North Korea criticism

West Asia (Middle East)

• Electronic Intifada News highlights on day 12 of the ceasefire in Gaza, with Nora Barrows-Friedman
• The Socialist Program Seizing Gaza: Can Trump Do What Israel Failed to Do? w/ Miko Peled, Son of Israeli General
• Breakthrough News Live Trump’s Gaza Takeover Delusion: Destined for Failure?
• Breakthrough News ‘We Refuse to Be Exterminated’: Gazan Journalist Describes Historic Return to the North
• Breakthrough News Israel’s ‘Buffer Zone’ Dream Fails: Displaced Lebanese Return to the South
• Breakthrough News Yemen Leader: ‘US & Israel Are the Real Terrorists—If You Escalate, We Will Too’ BT Exclusive
• Breakthrough News Seizing Gaza: Can Trump Do What Israel Failed to Do? w/ Miko Peled, Son of Israeli General
• Transnational Foundation Trump Announces ‘Levantine Riviera’: The Ethnic Cleansing and Terraforming Mega-Project of Tomorrow!
• Glenn Diesen Trump to ‘clean out’ and own Gaza?
• Novara Media Netanyahu Backs Trump’s Plan For Gaza #NovaraLIVE
• Neutrality Studies Trump Sanctions ICC, Threatens International System Over Israel Investigations Ray McGovern
• Middle East Eye “Israel’s masterplan…to ethnically cleanse Gaza” Norman Finkelstein UNAPOLOGETIC
• Middle East Eye The people of Gaza have already answered Trump: ‘We are not leaving’
• Middle East Eye If Trump tries to take over Gaza, Palestinians will die where they stand Op-ed by David Hearst
• Middle East Eye Displaced Palestinian families struggle to survive harsh winter in Gaza
• Middle East Eye Netanyahu optimistic about Saudi normalisation deal
• India & Global Left Mohammad Marandi reacts to TRUMP’S DANGEROUS PLAN TO OCCUPY GAZA
• Al Mayadeen English Israeli occupation burns houses in Odeisseh, South Lebanon
• Al Mayadeen English Trump’s Gaza ‘takeover’: Outright land theft not ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ vision
• Telesur English Gazans work on returning vitality to the northern Strip
• Al Jazeera Years of civil war and sanctions worsen Syria’s energy crisis
• Al Jazeera Israel kills two women, including pregnant 23-year-old, in West Bank raid
• Al Jazeera Will Lebanon’s newly formed government bring in reforms? Inside Story

Russia

• Thinkers Forum Why Did Trump Tiptoe Around Russia During Inauguration?
• Tarik Cyril Amar Russkoye Porechnoye and the Consequences
• Glenn Diesen How NATO Provoked Russia
• Glenn Diesen Russia Prepares to Negotiate With the US
• Neutrality Studies Peace With Russia Is INEVITABLE. NATO Is In Terminal Decline Ray McGovern
• Neutrality Studies The West’s RECKONING: They Can’t Ignore Russia’s Real Strength Anymore David T. Pyne
• Straits Times Russian missile strike kills five in Ukraine town, officials say

Europe

• Progressive International “The protests engulfing Serbia challenge the neoliberal hegemony.”
• Transnational Foundation The memorial in Auschwitz reminds us of the blind hatred and cruelty that fuels the war in Ukraine
• Tarik Cyril Amar German Mainstream Conservatives, Migration, and the Far Right
• Novara Media Ash Sarkar Tears Apart Politicians Over Media Complicity
• Electronic Intifada UK’s SHOCKING Authoritarian Move to SILENCE Palestine
• Shanghai Eye Unplugging from Russia, Baltic states join EU power grid as Von der Leyen hails ‘freedom’
• Shanghai Eye A nod to US Trump’s MAGA, far-right leaders gather in Madrid vowing to make Europe GREAT again
• Shanghai Eye Zelensky offers Ukraine’s rare earth deal in exchange for US Trump’s aid ahead of Putin talks
• Shanghai Eye Baltic states to cut final energy ties with Russia from Soviet-era system and to join EU power grid

Africa

• Progressive International “We Stand With the People of the Congo”
• Empire Watch Sudan’s Crisis: How the West Sabotaged Democracy with Eugene Puryear
• Africa Stream Burkina Faso’s People Are Its Biggest Resource
• Africa Stream Kagame Knows Everything Except Where His Troops Are
• Africa Stream More Kenyan Police Arrive In Haiti After U. S. Aid Freeze
• Africa Stream Celebrating The Legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop
• Africa Stream War No Way To ‘Protect’ Tutsis In Congo!
• Africa Stream DRC: Ceasefire Or Tactical Pause?
• Telesur English DR Congo: UN chief urges peace as conflict escalates in eastern region
• Shanghai Eye White South Africans say ‘NO’ to Trump, who offers US immigration for refugees under discrimination
• Al Jazeera The French bombing of a Tunisian town in 1958 Al Jazeera World Documentary

North America

• The Socialist Program Unelected Billionaire Elon Musk Takes Even More Power in Treasury Grab
• Breakthrough News US Reading Test Scores Fall to Lowest Level in 32 Years
• Breakthrough News Crypto Scammers Bought Trump – Now They’re Cashing In
• Breakthrough News Elon Musk Just Took Over The Treasury Department’s Payment Systems
• Breakthrough News Truth About USAID Cuts: Trump Will Keep Regime Change Ops Going in Other Agencies
• Novara Media Elon Musk Wants To Be Napoleon Ash Sarkar meets Will Davies
• Transnational Foundation Rubio’s reasoning as a reason for optimism? A leopard cannot change its spots!
• Seymour Hersh TRUMP’S POWER GRAB
• Second Thought Why Is The US Always At War?
• Second Thought Silicon Valley Is Building The Future Of War… And It’s Horrifying
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “The Anti-democratic Fraud Called ‘Meritocracy’” dated February 5, 2025
• Glenn Diesen Ray McGovern: Trump versus the Deep State
• Glenn Diesen Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Foreign Policy - Strategy Behind the Noise?
• Democracy at Work Redneck Gone Green: What is to be done?
• Democracy at Work Economic Update: New Economics Institute with Clara Mattei
• Democracy at Work Capitalism Hits Home: Marriage and Capitalism
• Thinkers Forum MAGA at War: Immigrant Labor vs. Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Prof. Richard Wolff
• Reports on China MARCO RUBIO ADMITS: U. S. dominance of the world IS OVER!
• Neutrality Studies Ex-State Dept. Chief REVEALS Hidden War Making Process Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
• Neutrality Studies How The CIA Became The Greatest Threat To US Security Ray McGovern
• Middle East Eye “Elon Musk has been given by Trump… almost dictatorial power” Rick Perlstein Real Talk
• India & Global Left Debate: Can Trump Save the decline of American Empire? Richard Wolff
• Electronic Intifada Trump’s SHOCKING Plan for Greater Israel EXPOSED
• Al Mayadeen English USAID: Tool for US regime change, war propaganda, Trump wanting full control
• Shanghai Eye Life on Mexico-US border through the eyes of Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong
• Robinson Erhardt Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the End of America

Latin America and The Caribbean

• Breakthrough News Latin America Rejects Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0
• Novara Media Trump Launches Trade War, Reaches Deal With Mexico #NovaraLIVE
• Telesur English Citizen Revolution Party is emerging as a strong contender in Ecuador’s elections
• Telesur English Ecuador faces elections under institutional crisis
• Telesur English Argentina, government amends Gender Identity Law
• Telesur English Guatemala, people reject visit of U. S. Secretary of State due to alleged interference
• Al Jazeera Ecuador set for run-off in presidential election dominated by security

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