Haibo World - The Year-Ending Edition

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.

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FEATURED

• The Bibi Files: The Real Benjamin Netanyahu [leaked police tapes show common criminal mass killing others to avoid prison]

• 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?

• South Africa signs up for international supervision of the local justice system

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

• 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

• Baby Bust: Why Conservatives are obsessed with birth rates now

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

EUROPE & RUSSIA

• U.S. bankrolled Ukrainian TikTokers and Instagram personalities $4.8 million.

• Fico defies EU, meets Putin to secure Slovak gas supply

• Another state-sponsored "fact-checker" falls afoul of fact-checking

• Moldovan president plans military operation in Transnistria — Russian intel agency

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 EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement's hopes and hurdles

• The resurgence of the fertilizer industry in Brazil

• Cubans march against the US blockade

MIDDLE EAST

Israel & Palestine:

• 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

OTHER

• Is consciousness fading in modern society?

• The Power of Narrative

• Stop doing the Empire's work for them

• The spirit of the empire and the manufacturing of tyrant-slaves

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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

• Freakonomics: Your brain doesn’t work the way you think

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

• Macro n Cheese: The power controlling money distribution

• HardTalk: What are Ukraine's options?