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Waiting for a new Bandung spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)
After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre.
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Trump orders purge of Black History from Smithsonian, targets African American Museum
The executive order is chillingly titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It declares that the Smithsonian, once a symbol of “American excellence,” has become tainted by narratives that portray “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
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Trump’s inverted view of America’s tariff history
Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike.
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How the Trump administration is using civil rights complaints over ‘antisemitism’ to end DEI and quash dissent on Palestine
The Trump administration’s recent investigation of 60 schools for “antisemitic discrimination” appeared to target campus protests. But, a closer look shows it was driven by pro-Israel groups’ use of civil rights law to push a broad right-wing agenda.
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Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty
A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty.
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Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.
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No, Marco Rubio, Cuban doctors are not victims of ‘forced labor’
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.
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Israel is about to empty Gaza
The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.
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NATO was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements worldwide
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.
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Political policing in Canada
The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.
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Iraq – Rising temperatures increasing poverty and unemployment
The contradiction in the geographical distribution of Iraq’s population precisely reflects the contradiction in the distribution of wealth in capitalist society.
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Absolute car crash
As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.
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Oligarchy and the subversion of democracy–warnings from South Africa
The world has an oligarchy problem.
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The camouflaged U.S. invasion of Panama
Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country.
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Judge blocks deportation of Columbia protest organizer Mahdawi
A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.
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Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador
President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.
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Smashing walls, building firewalls, and breaking the digital siege
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.
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Don’t Negotiate: Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Under Attack by the Trump Administration from Harvard Law Professor of Negotiation (April 13, 2025)
As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.
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Hegel reading Heraclitus
Antonis Chaliakopoulos offers an intro to Heraclitus, and to Hegel, via each other.
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Comment | The 1930s all over again? Trump and ‘Entartete Kunst’ revisited
There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.