✊ Progressive News | 17 February 2025

International

• Tricontinental Clean Waters and Green Mountains Are as Valuable as Gold and Silver Mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)
• Geopolitical Economy Report How Trump’s tariffs will accelerate US decline
• Geopolitical Economy Report The politics of gold: Economist Michael Hudson explains why gold’s price is rising so much
• Geopolitical Economy Report What is a ‘multipolar’ world? China says equality; Trump & Marco Rubio say imperial rivalry
• Breakthrough News Live Trump’s Gaza Takeover Delusion: Destined for Failure?
• Breakthrough News Live Will Egypt and Jordan Reject Trump’s Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza?
• Breakthrough News How the U. S. Uses ‘Aid’ as Soft Power to Dominate the World w/ Matt Kennard
• Breakthrough News DeepSeek vs. OpenAI: How the Open-Source Revolution Threatens the Imperialism of Big Tech
• Transnational Foundation USAID and NGOs for Narrative Control and War
• Transnational Foundation Western collapse thanks to militarism and the wish to dominate
• Transnational Foundation Free Hand
• The Socialist Program A Billionaire Dictatorship?
• The Socialist Program Trump’s Plans: The Big Picture
• The Socialist Program Trump’s Rhetoric Encourages Israeli Fantasies of Gaza Takeover
• Progressive International PI Briefing No. 6 Track, trace, disrupt, dismantle
• Glenn Diesen The Incoming Multipolar World
• Thinkers Forum What the West Never Knows about BRICS Pascal Lottaz
• Thinkers Forum China’s Ancient Wisdom Defying Warmongering
• Think BRICS The emergence of DeepSeek may strengthen AI cooperation among BRICS countries
• New Economic Thinking Globalization, Populism, & the Politics of Resentment
• Neutrality Studies Collective West Is Over. PEACE ACTIVISM Can Prevent Complete Self-Destruction U Guérot & J Oberg
• Michael Robets Blog What’s up with capitalism?
• Michael Robets Blog A whiff of stagflation
• Global Times Developing countries and Europe can benefit from DeepSeek’s open source
• China Up Close Wikileaks reveals US spent half a billion dollars for covert censorship, media control
• FridayEveryday Trump’s secret plan to control world trade

China

• Transnational Foundation “If You Want To Understand China”
• Wave Media Elon Musk’s Smear of China Is Too Cowardly
• Wave Media How Will USAID’s Fall Benefit China?
• The China Academy Chinese Expert: The US Should Respect China’s Circle of Influence
• Reports on China Trump and DOGE cut funds to CIA cutout that instigated Hong Kong riots!
• Reports on China BBC says “China good!” after secret USAID money shut off!
• Reports on China This anti-China veteran got REALLY mad when I gave him the FACTS!
• Neutrality Studies DRUG WAR 2.0: Will The USA Go To War With China Over Fentanyl? David T. Pyne
• Diplomatify Is China ALREADY A Global SUPERPOWER Today?
• Diplomatify It will shock you!
• China Up Close Why “Made in China 2025” Will Dominate Global Trade
• Center for China and Globalisation CCG senior fellow Andy Mok on impact of Chinese tariffs on US goods
• Center for China and Globalisation CCG senior fellow Andy Mok on impact of DeepSeek
• T-House Sanctions vs. innovation: Is China winning the AI race?
• T-House Graham Allison: China-U. S. ties would get better under Trump administration
• T-House Singapore defense chief: China’s initiative reflects international order
• T-House ‘Thanks’ to America, the BBC now has to face the facts
• T-House China: A Steadfast Constructive Role in a Changing World
• Shanghai Eye SCENE: Xi hosts symposium with China’s top entrepreneurs(HUAWEI, BYD..), including Alibaba’s Jack Ma
• Shanghai Eye China denounces US’s additional 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum
• Shanghai Eye UK, Chinese firms partner on wind power technology
• New China TV China’s efforts in combating cross-border telecom fraud “encouraging”: UN official
• New China TV GLOBALink China forges new path of circular development
• New China TV GLOBALink China’s Xiamen exports over 30 mln e-commerce parcels via air route to Sao Paulo
• New China TV GLOBALink Sino-Africa Joint Research Center contributes to Africa’s development: director
• New China TV GLOBALink Harbin hailed as Asian Winter Games wraps up
• CGTN Chinese blockbuster ‘Ne Zha 2’ wows audiences in Australia, NZ
• CGTN China’s coldest village becomes country’s hottest tourist hub

South Asia

• Center for China and Globalisation CCG research fellow Zoon Ahmed Khan on China-Pakistan ties
• CGTN We Talk: Indian scholar: Trade war is not good for anyone

Southeast Asia

• Thinkers Forum Singapore: Friend of China or the US? Fmr. Singapore Foreign Minister
• The China Academy Why People Are Mad at Chinese Companies Fmr. Singapore Foreign Minister
• The China Academy Singapore: Friend of China or the US? Fmr. Singapore Foreign Minister
• Global Times China-India long-term relations not pessimistic: Former Singaporean foreign minister George Yeo
• South China Morning Post Hundreds rescued from Myanmar scam centres
• South China Morning Post Hanoi becomes world’s most polluted city
• Channel News Asia Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh fined for lying to Committee of Privileges
• Channel News Asia Myanmar’s military, rival ethnic militia pledge to crack down on scam centres
• Channel News Asia Singapore to roll out cybersecurity training guide for board directors

East Asia

• T-House Possible conflict between China, Philippines & U. S. in South China Sea?
• Think BRICS Japan at the Three-Way Junction: The Trump-Ishiba Meeting
• Shanghai Eye North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visits father’s tomb, watches groundbreaking for new apartments
• New China TV China Chat Expert says China, Japan can’t split up
• Channel News Asia South Korea suspends new downloads of Chinese AI app DeepSeek over privacy concerns

West Asia (Middle East)

• Progressive International Palestinians reject Trump’s vision for Gaza: ‘If they offered me an entire city instead of the rubble of my home, I would not accept it.’
• Breakthrough News Zionism’s Endgame: a ‘Final Solution’ for the Palestinians, w/ Tony Greenstein
• Breakthrough News Syrian Domino Effect: How Turkey Wants a Neo-Ottoman Empire Across the Middle East
• Breakthrough News ‘I Had to Do Something’ for Gaza and Sudan: Why I Protested the Super Bowl
• Breakthrough News Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan: Disastrous ‘Domino Effect’ on the Middle East
• Novara Media Hamas Halts Hostage Releases as Ceasefire Threatens to Unravel #NovaraLive
• Novara Media “Let Hell Break Out”: Trump’s Ultimatum On Gaza #NovaraLive
• Novara Media Netanyahu Threatens to Resume War on Gaza #NovaraLive
• Novara Media There Is A Thick Stench Enveloping Gaza Muhammad Shehada Interview
• Middle East Eye Who is Khalida Jarrar?
• Middle East Eye A brief history of how Palestinians have resisted in Gaza Norman Finkelstein UNAPOLOGETIC
• Middle East Eye How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine
• Middle East Eye Arab leaders would pay for Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan with their thrones
• Middle East Eye Israel’s use of AI in Gaza should terrify us all Op-ed by Antony Loewenstein
• Middle East Eye How Israel uses ceasefires to advance ethnic cleansing Norman Finkelstein UNAPOLOGETIC
• India & Global Left Matt Kennard EXPOSES British Involvement in Palestine Genocide
• Empire Watch How Israel serves US imperialism in the Middle East with Sami Ramadani
• Electronic Intifada What I saw touring Gaza after Israel’s genocide, with Abubaker Abed
• Double Down News Trump’s SHOCKING Plan for Greater Israel EXPOSED
• Al Mayadeen English Lebanon does bleed, but it never bows
• Al Mayadeen English The American ethnic cleansing playbook, from Natives to Palestinian
• Al Mayadeen English Trump’s Gaza ‘takeover’: Outright land theft not ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ vision
• Telesur English Saudi Arabia, Jeddah hosts the 2nd Biennial of Islamic Art
• Telesur English Palestine, more than 2 million Gazans face conditions that risk their survival
• Shanghai Eye Targeting Iran and nodding Trump’s Gaza ‘take over’, Rubio, Netanyahu present united US-Israel front
• Al Jazeera Fake news, rumours and disinformation in post-Assad Syria The Listening Post
• Al Jazeera Destroyed Jabalia central market in the northern Gaza Strip comes to life again
• Al Jazeera Israel continues to restrict entry of temporary shelters into Gaza

Russia

• Tarik Cyril Amar Putin Trump Turning-Point Talk
• Think BRICS A Diplomatic Thaw in Belarus: The New York Post Reports on a Potential Shift in U. S.-Belarus Relations
• Neutrality Studies Russia Beat NATO Strategically. They Can’t Recover From This Andrei Martyanov
• Democracy Now! War in Ukraine: As Trump & Putin Agree to Begin Peace Talks, Will Kyiv Get a Seat at the Table?
• Shanghai Eye ‘Peace not war’ now the focus for Russia and US, Kremlin says ahead of Saudi Arabia meet on Ukraine
• Shanghai Eye China’s FM Wang Yi on Trump and Putin discussing Ukraine conflict at MSC 2025
• Channel News Asia Ukraine war: US, Russia officials to meet in Saudi Arabia as EU leaders hold emergency summit
• Al Jazeera Russia’s Lavrov expected to meet US counterpart Rubio in Riyadh to discuss ending Ukraine war

Europe

• Tarik Cyril Amar USAID, Ukraine, and Proxy War Lies
• Seymour Hersh NORD STREAM AND THE FAILURES OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
• Glenn Diesen Major Obstacles to Peace in Ukraine
• Glenn Diesen The Ukraine War is Coming to an End - What Happens Next?
• Glenn Diesen Trump To Force Ukraine Peace on Europe
• Glenn Diesen Toward a Multipolar World: Armenia’s Should Beware of Ukraine’s Fate
• Thinkers Forum Why Europe’s AI Is Falling Behind Everyone Else Kishore Mahbubani
• Thinkers Forum Europe’s Last Chance to Seize Autonomy from the US Yanis Varoufakis
• Thinkers Forum Europe: Efficiency at What Cost? More Money for Private Firms Yanis Varoufakis
• Novara Media Farage Just Wants Tax Cuts For the Wealthy
• Novara Media This Is Why The Right Are WINNING Aaron Bastani meets Ash Sarkar
• Novara Media Trump Says Ukraine Peace Talks Will Start Now Following Putin Call #NovaraLive
• Novara Media The REAL Reason You Can’t Get an Uber Novara Reports
• Neutrality Studies Baltic Tragedy: NATO/EU Prepping Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia For War Romans Sklenniks Reupload
• Neutrality Studies EU Elites Are Freaking-out Over USA Dumping Them Dr. Glenn Diesen
• Democracy Now! “Frenzy of Warmongering”: Critics of Munich Security Summit Warn of Musk, Rising Fascism in Europe
• Al Mayadeen English ‘They are fascist nationalists dressed up as a religion, ‘ argues journalist Dan Cohen
• Al Mayadeen English Your guide to modern fascism
• T-House The rise of multipolarity: global power shifts at the Munich Security Conference
• Straits Times Dozens hurt as car rams Munich crowd before German election
• Shanghai Eye 30, 000 Germans rally for break with far-right and democracy ahead of vote amid disputed Vance remark
• Shanghai Eye Emotional Vucic blames USAID-led outsiders of eyeing bringing down Serbia by colored revolution
• Shanghai Eye Zelensky refuses to sign Trump-led deal for half Ukraine’s rare mineral - ‘it don’t protect us’
• Channel News Asia Ukraine war casts shadow over Munich Security Conference
• Channel News Asia US vice president criticises Europe in speech at Munich Security Conference
• Al Jazeera As Germany braces for election, opinion polls suggest a shift to the right

Africa

• Think BRICS Trump’s WAR on South Africa – A Desperate Move to CRUSH BRICS?!
• Think BRICS The Year Ahead for China-Africa Investments
• Africa Stream West Allows Kagame Impunity In Congo
• Africa Stream No Soldiers In DRC? Rwandan Military Cemeteries Fill Up
• Africa Stream Paypal Mafia’s Links To Apartheid South Africa
• Africa Stream Socialism Is Justice For The Masses – Nyerere
• Africa Stream Niger President: ‘The Enemy Is France’
• Africa Stream Nigeria’s Dangote Scores Jet-fuel Export Deal With Saudi Giant
• Africa Stream Construction Vehicles Pour Into Burkina Faso?
• New China TV GLOBALink U. S. tariff hikes will only hurt American people: Zambian expert
• Al Jazeera African Union summit concludes with calls for M23 to disarm and withdraw from DRC
• Al Jazeera DR Congo’s M23 rebels enter centre of strategic city of Bukavu
• Al Jazeera Diamond mining in Sierra Leone: Destructive impact on the environment and livelihoods

North America

• Breakthrough News Truth About USAID Cuts: Trump Will Keep Regime Change Ops Going in Other Agencies
• Breakthrough News Trump’s Threats to Deport Student Activists for Gaza Show the Israel Lobby is ‘Terrified’
• Breakthrough News Don’t Call It Populism: How Trump Protects the System He Pretends to Fight, w/ Vijay Prashad
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “The Hoax Of The Tariff “ Dated February 12, 2025
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “The Folly of Deregulation” Dated February 14, 2025 (BONUS)
• Glenn Diesen Hegseth Replaces Deception with Reality
• Glenn Diesen Colonel Douglas Macgregor: End of the American Empire?
• Glenn Diesen Trump’s Economic Recovery - A Dead End?
• First Thought Elon Musk Will Personally Profit from Gutting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Ex-CFPB Official
• Democracy at Work Economic Update: The View from Prison
• Democracy at Work Dialectic At Work: Capitalism hits the fan 2.0?
• Thinkers Forum Game Changer Trump: No More Good vs. Evil Dichotmy Dr. Pascal Lottaz
• Neutrality Studies How The USA Is Destroying Itself From Within Cameron Macgregor
• India & Global Left Will TRUMP TARIFFS Destroy Global Economy?
• India & Global Left DEBATE WITH RICHARD WOLFF THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
• India & Global Left How Guantanamo Bay plays a central role in US IMPERIALISM?
• Double Down News REVEALED: Trump & Elon Musk’s BRUTAL Secret
• Al Mayadeen English ‘Trump trade’ backfires: US dollar at risk?
• Robinson Erhardt Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the End of America
• Planet: Critical The Bullshit Stinking Up Silicon Valley Ed Zitron

Latin America and The Caribbean

• Progressive International “All eyes on Ecuador.”
• Telesur English Mexico, earthquake of magnitude 5.1 shakes Oaxaca
• Telesur English Argentine lawyers accuse Javier Milei of fraud over cryptocurrency promotion
• Telesur English Colombia Petro condemns the U. S. and U. K.rejection of regulations on AI
• Telesur English Haiti Criminal groups set fire to Port-au-Prince’s main public hospital
• Telesur English Brazil Religious hate crimes are on a rise
• Telesur English Venezuela Government dismantles network of internal coyotes
• Telesur English Cuban President denounces USAID funding for subversive actions against Cuba
• Telesur English President Sheinbaum calls on U. S. action against drug trafficking
• Telesur English President Lula criticizes Trump’s stance against environmental issues
• Al Jazeera Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer at centre of church-state battle over ownership in Rio de Janeiro
• Al Jazeera Brazil faces unprecedented heatwave, poor neighborhoods suffer the most

Oceania

• Neutrality Studies New Zealand vs. China? The Pacific Showdown Nobody Saw Coming Eugene Doyle

Miscellaneous

• The Deprogram The first three weeks of Trump have been… embarrassing
• The Deprogram First Three Weeks - Deprogram Episode 169