#gaza #Palestine #Palestinians #ceasefire #genocide #humanitarian #aid #disease #famine #starvation #Israel www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Just World's video on Jesus’s birth, "retold through its political & human context, from Roman military rule to forced journeys, displacement, & exile... explains how Jesus of Nazareth was born into a Jewish Palestinian family living under foreign occupation" www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uW...

Greta Thunberg was arrested under Section 13 of UK Terrorism Act 2000 for holding up sign reading: “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.” Now illegal not just to support Palestine Action, but... individuals not been convicted too?" www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-po...

Latest Palcast podcast episode interviews Ali Al Omari, Palestinian Filipino artist & architecture graduate whose work focuses on Palestinian art, sumud, & resistance through architecture. Conversation centers on Gaza as a city that rises from destruction" open.spotify.com/episode/7qPe...

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) similarly provides updates on their 'Reported Impact Snapshot for the Gaza Strip www.ochaopt.org/content/repo...

Al Jazeera keeps track of all the times Israel breaks Gaza ceasefire www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

"Israel’s Cabinet finalized approval of 19 new Jewish-only settler colonies in illegally occupied West Bank, a move apartheid state’s far-right finance minister said was aimed at thwarting Palestinian statehood....[enabled by] US military & political support" www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Amu Gib, 1 of 8 prisoners incarcerated for alleged involvement in direct action against Israeli genocide who went on hunger strike in UK jails, & on day 50, was hospitalised, explains purpose of life-or-death decision: "No rhyme or reason to our imprisonment" www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/22/w...

"While current media landscape & its relationship to politics is still bleak, Clinton’s accusation is much more about her fealty to Israel & centrist-liberal order... to delegitimize pro-Palestine sentiment, cast doubt on the devastation in Gaza itself" www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza...

In UK "groups & individuals can launch private prosecutions, even when authorities have decided there is no case to answer... to intimidate & silence political opponents... [e.g.] in vexatious case of Campaign Against Antisemitism versus Reginald D. Hunter" www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/campaign-a...

M. Ehret outlines linked history of transhumanism and Christian Zionism, dating them back to at least The Council of Trent, 1543, & involving famous figures such as radical atheist Darwinian Sir Julian Huxley & Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin matthewehret.substack.com/p/transhuman...

"Christ child is born not in palace, but in stable. Not into comfort, but vulnerability. Not surrounded by power, but by simplicity [humility & presence]. This is not incidental detail — it is instruction... Love does not arrive armored. It arrives open" greatawakeningreport.com/who-investig...

"U.S. govt labelled Houthis’ actions as “terrorism”, piracy, threat to U.S. national security, even as Houthi govt presented plausible justifications... laws of war. U.S. tried to normalize... own attacks which violate most basic principles of international law" www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/23/w...

The Ditch x @dropsitenews.com Leaked audio: Statements at a defence conference suggest Israel’s weapons industry has been emboldened by genocide in Gaza – with executives connecting the value of their companies to the IDF's campaign in Palestine.   www.ontheditch.com/leaked-confe...

Stop Picking On Poor Little Israel There was a mass shooting in Australia so now everyone needs to shut up and do whatever Israel wants. Israel feels sad about the shooting so now it gets to do a bit more genocide, as a treat. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-picki...

This is a very hopeful way to close out the year—give it a read.

Scientists are "skeptical" of this the same way I am "skeptical" that the moon is made of green cheese. This is pure hype created to justify pouring more money into the AI bubble.

It's not just that we live in hell, it's that we live in a hell that appears to have been crafted to torture me, personally. When a friend sent me this headline, I seriously wondered if it was something he had created to troll me.

Commercial fusion ain't happening anytime soon, if ever. I wrote about that back in May for Fortune. If anything, I think I may have *understated* how hard it is.

A young student set out to protect an endangered local bird in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Two decades later, a 20,000-strong army of women conservationists have helped shift perceptions about the bird and grow back its numbers. reasonstobecheerful.world/stork-sister...

Inside a French city’s bold plan to create a more equitable place for residents: reasonstobecheerful.world/nantes-franc...

Mangroves help store carbon in oceans and are effective in reducing the speed and intensity of tsunamis and tidal surges. That’s why groups of women are working hard to preserve an ancient mangrove forest straddling the border between India and Bangladesh: reasonstobecheerful.world/women-preser...

9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet. One of our top stories this year: www.404media.co/declassified...

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

When users confronted the exec with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience. www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video. But here's what it says about the future of surveillance: www.404media.co/the-astronom...

This year marked the first time the AI avatar of a victim—in this case, a dead man—has ever addressed a court, and it raises many questions about the use of this type of technology in future court proceedings. www.404media.co/i-loved-that...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

US Pentagon, Dept. Defense, fails annual audit for eighth year in a row www.commondreams.org/news/pentago...

"UK High Court refusal reveals an “ambient authority” model of “rule by law”. Judicial Review is refused permission—exposing how classical rule-of-law principles are displaced by managerial enforcement without attribution or accountability" newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/high-court...

"While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced & accommodated, Russia’s are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as sentiment than as systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security" www.cirsd.org/en/news/euro...

"Milan prosecutor's office concluded that 21 alleged cases of Russian drones flying over European Joint Research Centre (JRC) were a technical error. The security system of the JRC nuclear site produced false positives due to a common GSM signal booster" unn.ua/en/news/spy-...

European Commission Decision approving political speech sanctions, "restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities" eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

EU simultaneously imposes Kafkaesque sanctions on dissenting individuals: e.g Jacques Baud, not placed on list based on proven illegal activities, but rather arbitrarily by some EU officials, approved by the EU Council, with a flimsy justification overton--magazin-de.translate.goog/top-story/eu...

Just banned in USA: "So-called “global censorship-industrial complex”: tiny world of academics, NGOs, journalists, policy wonks, lawmakers & disinformation researchers who for last decade try to understand power & reach of tech platforms" Pot-kettle-black broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-message-...

Basel Peace Office runs webinar ‘Reversing the Doomsday Clock’ intergenerational forum on Jan. 23, 2026 to bring innovative young activists together with policy makers and civil society leaders to discuss effective initiatives and policies to address polycrisis baselpeaceoffice.org/article/reve...

"Diplomatic relations between Bangladesh & India have reached an unprecedented decline. A culture of mutual blame- at both public & diplomatic levels- has further chilled relationship... both countries have officially announced suspension of regular visa services" www.pressenza.com/2025/12/unpr...

"Substack is different... integrate number of things beautifully: newsletter + email + web + notes + chats, all in 1 place. Work isn’t just landing in inboxes—lives on a web & app ecosystem designed for it to be found, read, shared, commented on, & recommended" ornaross.substack.com/p/is-substac...

"Irish govt is facing formidable legal challenge as Lansdowne Oil & Gas PLC initiates compensation claim for $100 million (£78.5m) +... [re.] state’s refusal to grant lease for Barryroe oil & gas field... under contentious Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)" claimsboard.ie/lansdowne-su...

Despite repeated criticism from U.S. govt, which asked Mexico to reconsider relationship with Cuba. President Sheinbaum said shipping Mexican oil to Cuba was carried out in accordance with principles of sovereignty & humanitarianism... transparent & legitimate" www.pressenza.com/2025/12/mexi...

"Germany had still vehemently opposed joint bonds in the financial crisis to catch Greece. Now 90 billion euros will be taken in for the non-EU member and corruption country Ukraine to extend the war" overton-magazin.de/top-story/sc...

As U.S. threatens to take “oil, land & other assets” from Venezuela, staffers at Center for Strategic & International Studies, think tank funded in part by defense contractors & oil companies, r eager to help make public case for regime change & investment" responsiblestatecraft.org/special-inte...

'Rest of World' highlights e.g. The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local. - Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI. - Latin America hardens import regulations for China-based ultrafast fashion Shein, to shield local textile industry restofworld.org

"IMF-driven austerity, multinational corporations that dominate raw-material extraction & exports, & violence of wars & sanctions... destroy productive infrastructure, shrink state capacity, & produce precarious & politically weakened... working class" thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

"The Nerve's heroes of the year: Fearless reporters, ground-breaking artists, prophetic writers ... our contributors pick the people who’ve inspired them most over a tumultuous 12 months" www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...

"On Jan. 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of Today programme to expose realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. Fury that followed showed how rare – & threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/day-...

Animated presentation on how Colonialism never ended – it just became debt. Today, over 50 countries in the Global South, including Haiti and Congo, are trapped in a $1 trillion debt crisis. But this is by design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60c...

The European Commission officially extended Ireland's nitrates derogation for a further 3 years. ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Despite green groups arguing, "Renewing Nitrates Derogation Had No Scientific Basis and Fails Nature, The Public, and Farmers" swanireland.ie/2025/12/rene...

"Clear that UK govt & pharmaceutical industry have a close relationship with manufacture & marketing of vaccines... largely secret, as our numerous FOI requests have not elicited substantive responses. “Commercial in Confidence” is cited for refusing" trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/putting-pr...