Mammoth news index for every continent (and a big island that thinks it’s one).

This is reading beyond today – bookmark, take your time, get educated, be less fooled, and be ready for 2025 which I expect to be a momentous year.

 

 

 

FEATURED

• Never Forgive Them

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AFRICA

• Rwanda: Part 1 and Part 2
• US State Dept gives nod to $5bn in potential arms sales for Egypt [the dictatorship]

AFRICA (SOUTH AFRICA)

• Nuclear, the “earthquake near vaalputs”
• Financial outlook and challenges for 2025
• Mozambique political crisis: Could South Africa, regional mediators break the deadlock?

ANTARCTICA

• Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief
• 1 trillion tonne iceberg on the move again

ASIA

• China says it provided information, documents in Baltic Sea cables inquiry
• China takes steps against Canada institutions, individuals over Uyghurs, Tibet
• ‘Trapped inside’: The children suffocating in the smog of Lahore

AUSTRALIA & THAT PLACE NEXT DOOR

AUSTRALIA & THAT PLACE NEXT DOOR

• Die Führer show their hand

• Australian foreign minister visits Ukraine, backs US war against Russia

• Ireland’s morality calls out lynch and the Australian’s humanity on Gaza

Europe

• Sooner or Later… (more madness in Romania)

• Commission’s ‘NGO gag order’ will boost corporate lobby power

• Tens of thousands rally in Belgrade demanding accountability over Novi Sad railway station disaster

• A food apocalypse is coming – there is no plan to feed Britain in a crisis [an excellent read despite the Russophobia]

EUROPE & RUSSIA

• Fico Defies EU, Meets Putin to Secure Slovak Gas Supply

• Another state-sponsored “fact-checker” falls afoul of fact-checking

LATIN AMERICA

• Ten Years After Normalization With Cuba, Trump Hardliners Take Cuba Back In Time

• President of Panama fires back at Trump: Canal ‘belongs to Panama’

• The resurgence of the fertilizer industry in Brazil

• Cubans march against the US blockade

Israel & Palestine:

• The Bibi Files: Documentary Film Presents the Real Benjamin Netanyahu [common criminal mass killing others to avoid prison]

• Hamas calls attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital ‘crime against humanity’

• Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

Lebanon (the country that almost vanished from the news):

• What the Israel-Hezbollah war did to Lebanon’s cultural heritage sites

• HTS says Syria will not interfere ‘negatively’ in Lebanon

Syria:

• Qatar’s position in post-Assad Syria

• What Jeffrey Sachs and Tucker Carlson get right and wrong about the post-9/11 wars

• Those who stand with the Palestinians should celebrate Assad’s fall

• Syria’s Al-Sharaa says no to arms outside State control

Turkey:

• Turkey gets US waiver to pay for Russian gas via sanctioned Gazprombank

• Turkey as the Middle East power King

• US Judge Finds Israel’s NSO Group Liable for Hacking in WhatsApp Lawsuit

Yemen:

• Yemen downs F-18, targets USS Truman thwarting attack on Sanaa

• Victory at sea, [the US vs Yemen] friendly fire version?

USA & Canada

• The US embrace of incarceration for the homeless is a win-win for the Plutocrats

• Here’s what Biden’s final war powers report to Congress is hiding from the public

• Bogus Columbia “resignation” reignites Zionist smears against Joseph Massad

• Interviews with Amazon workers organizing a historic strike

• Senate passes $895 billion Pentagon bill

Documentaries

• I slept with 100 men in one day

• Trained as a spy at 10 – sex trafficking survivor Anneke Lucas names her billionaire abusers

• Sex, gold and violence in Brazil

• South Africa’s kidnapping epidemic

• Israel’s intended alternative to the Suez Canal

• The King, the Prince & their secret millions

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PODCASTS

• Blocked & Reported: The Helen Lewis holiday extravaganza

• Radiolab: Curiosity killed the adage

• Corbett Report and Media Monarchy: New World Next Year 2025

• Jimmy Dore: CNN host Brian Seltzer caught lying about lying!

MIKE HAMPTON DEC 23 2024