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Declassified UK and Double Down News   Declassified presents the first documentary about Britain's complicity in the Gaza genocide, exposing Keir Starmer's shady spy flight missions for Israel. What does a British base in Cyprus have to do with Israel's genocide in Gaza? Declassified travelled to this Mediterranean island to investigate the hundreds of spy flights Keir Starmer has sent over Gaza, that coincided with Israeli airstrikes and the killing of British aid workers Declassified goes where the British media and military experts have refused to look and ask whether this scandal could put Keir Starmer in The Hague. 

Geopolitical Economy Report   How does China's economic model work? Political economist Ben Norton explains the ideas behind Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, discussing China's socialist market economy, historical development, reform process, poverty reduction, industrial policy, and more. 

The Grayzone   In a riveting interview with OANN host and former US congressman Matt Gaetz, The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal discusses the recent indictment of a former top DEA official and veteran CIA asset in a $12 million scheme to launder money and procure drones for Mexico's Jalisco cartel. Blumenthal uses the scandal as a window into the US government's history of covert collaboration with drug traffickers, explaining how the CIA created Venezuela's so-called "Cartel of the Suns," and calling out Trump's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduran president convicted of shipping over 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 

Though Chinese exports to the US have declined almost 19% since the start of Trump’s tariff war in April, it has been able to diversify both its export destinations as well as the basket of goods to counter the effects.   by Abdul Rahman  Part 1 China’s yearly trade surplus crossed the one trillion USD mark for the first time ever in November, as per customs data released on Monday, December 8. The figure is seen as a sign of Chinese resilience in the face of the tariff war waged by the US. As per the official data, Chinese exports registered a growth in November, reversing the 1.1% contraction the previous month due to its rising demands in various regions outside the US. Chinese exports climbed 5.9% in November in comparison to the same month last year while imports grew by 1.9%. China exported goods and services worth over 330 billion US dollars in the month. The total value of imports in the same month stood at nearly 219 billion US dollars, generating a surplus of over 11...

As Trump continues to lodge threats against the Bolivarian Republic, US Congress and grassroots movements mobilize to stop a new war.   by Devin B. Martinez   Part 2 - Pressure mounts in Congress against Trump’s threats of war As the Trump cabinet prepares for fresh violations of international law, they are already feeling the backlash of those already committed. Committees in US Congress have launched investigations into US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for crimes related to missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean, in which the order was reportedly to “kill everybody”. “These are serious charges, and that’s the reason we’re going to have special oversight,” said Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as reported by PBS. The mounting scrutiny follows a Washington Post report that details Hegseth’s direction to strike a bombed boat a second time, called a “double tap” strike, even as survivors clung to the edge of the b...

Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.   by Alan Macleod  Part 3 - MAGA Mouthpieces   Many of these wealthy individuals have joined forces with President Trump, in an effort to support Republican policies and push a conservative worldview. Chief among these is the Ellison family, who quickly announced significant changes as CBS News, promising “unbiased” coverage and more “varied ideological perspectives”– widely understood as a shift towards right-wing, pro-Trump coverage. Larry Ellison holds deeply conservative views, and became a top donor and fundrai...

AJ+   Dena Takruri speaks to Assal Rad about how badly legacy media has failed at one of its most important jobs: covering war crimes and genocide.  

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.   by Pavan Kulkarni  Part 5 - A proxy war “We must not think we are simply facing terrorist groups,” Diop maintains. “No, this is a proxy war, where certain powers, cowardly and unable to confront us directly, are using terrorist groups and asymmetric forces to fight us … These terrorist groups have drones. Where do they come from? Who manufactures them? Who provides them in areas where people cannot even eat?” Le Monde had reported last year that Ukrainian authorities are training an armed group to use drones. Spokesperson of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Andriy Yusov, had said in an interview that it provided “information, and not only information,” to armed groups fighting the state in Mali. Earlier in 202...

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Kit Klarenberg explains how the British government is working with the Israeli embassy to tackle the "threat" of Palestinian human rights activists.  

The Young Turks   Israel is scrambling to form a media strategy as foreign journalists enter the Gaza Strip for the first time. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks .