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Iran's first-ever SCO military exercise solidifies ties with China and Russia
- Dec 18, 2025
https://merics.org/en/comment/irans-first-ever-sco-military-exercise-solidifies-ties-china-and-russia
"The five-day “Sahand-2025” exercise in the northwest of the country was more than a counter-terrorism drill. It sent a clear geopolitical signal of Tehran’s full integration into the multilateral partnership led by China and Russia...
the recent military field operations, tactical maneuvers and joint command exercises from December 1 to 5 were an achievement for a country long isolated by UN sanctions and reflect China’s decisive shift in posture: Beijing is no longer worried about being seen as too closely aligned with Iran and now sees value in upgrading ties on several fronts. "
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Tankers, Sanctions, and the New Front of the Global Majority – From Venezuela to Iran, from the Caribbean to the Gulf of Oman
- Feroze Mithiborwala - Dec 13, 2025
https://mronline.org/2025/12/16/tankers-sanctions-and-the-new-front-of-the-global-majority-from-venezuela-to-iran-from-the-caribbean-to-the-gulf-of-oman/
"The U.S. capture of a tanker accused of carrying Venezuelan and Iranian oil was not an isolated action. It was an escalation... to punish Iran for refusing submission to the US...
Within hours, Tehran answered in kind. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, once again signalling that the era of one‑way maritime coercion is over...
Venezuela and Iran... are no longer isolated targets. They are nodes in a growing network of political, economic, and military cooperation that now stretches from South America to West Asia, anchored by deepening ties with China and Russia."
Did Canada Really Just Build a $7.5 Million Monument That Honours Nazis? Because it sure looks that way
- Taylor C. Noakes - Dec 3, 2025
https://thewalrus.ca/did-canada-really-just-build-a-7-5-million-monument-that-honours-nazis/
"But one crucial element was missing: the victims. The names meant to be inscribed on the monument’s Wall of Remembrance were conspicuously absent... Already many years behind schedule and several million dollars over budget, the memorial was supposed to have been unveiled in November 2023. The plan was shelved shortly after Parliament celebrated SS volunteer Yaroslav Hunka as a “Canadian and Ukrainian hero” during Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s state visit in September 2023."
Real-Name Policies: The War Against Pseudonymity
- Privacy Guides - Oct 15, 2025
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/10/15/real-name-policies/
"Facebook... regularly demands official IDs... Facebook has even repeatedly taken the liberty to decide which name was "real", and changed the displayed name of users based on verification processes without any prior consent..."
"For anyone who is experiencing or has experienced domestic violence, creating a new online identity hidden from the perpetrator can be essential for survival...
When people are forced to only use one identity online... this empowers aggressors to find their victims, to silence them, to control them, and to harm them."
When policies and features make it difficult or impossible for vulnerable people to use these technologies safely, they are effectively excluding vulnerable people from the platforms."
Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago and Will Defeat it Again
: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2025) - The Tricontinental - Nov 27, 2025
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/ww2-communism-fascism/
"fascism is the... the ugly twin of colonialism. It is hard to distinguish between the two... consider the six million people killed in the Congo, the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples of South West Africa by Germany, the genocide of the native peoples of the Americas, and the three million Bengalis starved to death in 1943."
Regime Change” in Venezuela is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage
- Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J. S. Davies - Nov 12, 2025
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/12/regime-change-in-venezuela-is-a-euphemism-for-u-s-inflicted-carnage/
"For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair."
The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence
- Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler - Sep 11, 2025
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/11/the-killing-of-charles-james-kirk-violent-speech-leads-to-violence/
"The killing of Charlie Kirk fits within this arena of speech that is racist and hate-filled, but is designed to pose as rational and logical political speech. In his rhetoric and so-called debate style this 31-year-old evangelical firebrand of the right has stated that Black pilots were incompetent, Gays should be stoned, ironically he was opposed to gun control, abortion, LGBTQ rights, criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr., promoted Christian nationalism, advanced COVID-19 misinformation, made false claims of electoral fraud in 2020, and is a proponent of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory."
Anti LGBTQIA governments are using dating sites and social media to track down members of the LGBTQIA community.
https://www.article19.org/queer-resistance-to-digital-oppression/
As conservative and fascist forces continue to make advances in governments around the world, it's important to know that 100% of people in custody for LGBTQIA related "crimes" testified that they were forced, (usually violently forced) to give police access to their device if that device had biometric security enabled. In other words, fingerprint and face recognition software increase the risk of physical assault by the police and decrease privacy.
For minority groups, information security often means the difference between being imprisoned and being released.
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