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Ukraine, war propaganda, and the return of Russiagate
We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity.
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Trump’s protest threat reflects belief that free speech belongs to some
You have to understand this notion of freedom—that to be free, you have to make someone else less free—to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of “free speech.”
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Israeli cabinet allows military to call up 400,000 reservists for possible occupation duty
In phase one, which ended on Saturday, a total of 33 Israeli captives, including eight bodies, were released in exchange for 1,737 Palestinian abductees held in the regime’s jails.
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Chainsaw diplomacy: Javier Milei’s Argentina destruction is a nightmarish model for Musk, DOGE
The Argentinian president gifted Elon Musk a custom chainsaw, which he promised to use to drastically reduce public spending in his new role as the de facto leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Exposing the big con: The false promise of Artificial Intelligence
The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all.
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Why class matters
Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.
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Organization and Production: The 4F Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ Commune (Part II)
Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.
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Harry Magdoff Memorial Library: The Hidden Library of Marx, Lenin, and Mao in Kathmandu
In the basement of Helping Hands Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is a meeting room. Its left and right sides are lined with stacks of large books, some with torn covers. These are rare books about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. They sit like prisoners, yearning for readers to set them free. The place is known as Harry Magdoff Memorial Library.
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To cozy up to Trump, Bezos banishes dissent from WaPo
“When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”
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Trump’s MAGA and deregulation
Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive.
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Conquered lands
To the victors, the spoils.
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Remembering nuclear victims 71 years after the Castle Bravo test
Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.
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The empire rebrands
The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.
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Trump approves $3 billion in arms sales to Israel without U.S. Congressional approval
In a series of notifications sent to Congress on Friday, the State Department has reported it has approved the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion to Israel.
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A whiff of stagflation
The major economies are exhibiting signs of stagflation.
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The empire at its most honest
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.
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Plundering Africa–Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes
Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free.
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Imperialism’s revival strategy
The Trump strategy for the revival of imperialism amounts to having one’s cake and eating it too.
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Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda
The Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling class that have given rise to recent developments? What are the underlying changes within the base and superstructure of the United States? What are the long-term ideological and political consequences on US foreign policy? How should the Global South respond?
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China has already become the leader in advanced critical technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)
Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?