The importance of the Strait of Malacca for Chinese Trade
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January 19, 1863: This Week in History

Read More »On January 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to textile workers in Manchester, England, a city with deep ties to the slave trade, thanking them for their sacrifice and solidarity in supporting an embargo on cotton harvested by enslaved workers.
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance

Class must be prioritised in any analysis.
But over centuries and millennia, the collective “recipes for living” (Clifford Geertz’ famous definition of culture) that emerges from particular conditions and trajectories does become a force which also shapes history.
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance
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Report: Kurdish Fighters Have Been Entering Iran From Iraq and Clashing With the IRGC
Report: Kurdish Fighters Have Been Entering Iran From Iraq and Clashing With the IRGC
By Dave DeCamp | The Libertarian Institute | January 14, 2026
Turkish intelligence has warned Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that Kurdish fighters have been entering Iran from Iraq amid protests inside Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
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The US has a significant presence in Iraqi Kurdistan, including a military base and an $800 million consulate compound that it opened in December. The Israeli Mossad is also known for having a presence in the area, and Iran claimed that it attacked a Mossad base in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2024.
Previously:
Trump Has Strong Options for Iran /Alastair Crooke & Lt Col Daniel Davis
These are the same Iraqi Kurds for whom the U.S. established the post‑1991 autonomous zone. Erbil Governorate sits on the Iran‑facing side of Iraqi Kurdistan. The U.S. operates Harir Air Base there (active since 2003) and maintains the largest consulate compound in the world. This is a forward U.S. position on Iran’s border. The U.S./Coalition also has units in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, which likewise borders Iran.
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Israel: Bill to Allow Execution of Palestinian Prisoners by Hanging! (14.1.2026)
Blogger’s Note: The Israeli State routinely carries-out extra-judicial executions of Palestinian prisoners, POWs and wounded, etc. This means these male, female, and child victims have not stood trial – primarily because the resisting of Israeli aggression is permitted a “right” under “International Law”. It is Israel which is occupying and invading Palestinian territory – and not the other way around. As the Palestinians are not committing any crime resisting Israeli aggression – they cannot be “tried” in a criminal court as no law is being broken. As the UN, ICC, and ICJ – as well as numerous other humanitarian organisations – have confirmed that the Israeli State is committing “Genocide” in Gaza – the idea that Israel can treat POWs as common criminals is “illegal” as “Prisoners of War” are not considered subject to Civil or Criminal Law in the conventional sense. Israel already possesses the Death Sentence as part of its (civilian) Criminal Code – but seldom uses it against its own citizenship. The distorted Zionist thinking here – is that if the Israeli State passes an “illegal” law to “execute” POWs (acting under the false assumption that this would remove the grounds for the allegation of “Genocide”) – the world community will look the other way – the sad thing is that this could well be the case. ACW (14.1.2026)
Israel: Bill to Allow Execution of Palestinian Prisoners by Hanging! (14.1.2026)

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