Archive | March, 2026

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Citing new research from Protect Borrowers, formerly the Student Borrower Protection Center, the coalition advised Education Secretary Linda McMahon in a January 7 letter that a new student loan default occurred every nine seconds in 2025. That escalating rate is unprecedented, and is nearly three times worse than in 2019the year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As Ruchir Sharma put it back last October, “America is now one big bet on AI“.

In each country, the far right has its own characteristics: in many cases (Europe, the United States, India), the ‘enemy’—i.e. the scapegoat—is the Muslims and/or the immigrants; in some Muslim countries, it is some religious minority (Christians, Jews, Yezidis).

Anti-war advocates have openly speculated about whether the Democratic establishment would deliberately allow the war to drag on to benefit the party politically in the 2026 midterm elections.

Research shows people often “age out” of crime, and health care costs are ballooning. But still, many states oppose releasing elderly prisoners.

The following was published this past Saturday by the satirical Montana Department of Propaganda Facebook group, the place “where trolls go to die.”

The policy of restricting trade with the country’s Communist government was put into full force under the Kennedy administration, with the explicit goal of causing enough economic hardship, hunger and desperation to spur regime change.

An interview with Rama Salla Dieng

Trump boasted this week that he could ‘take’ Cuba and do ‘whatever he wants’ with the island nation, coinciding with major power outages resulting from the blockade.

Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, Ofer Cassif and Aida Touma-Sliman visited on Tuesday evening, March 17, Khaled and Mustafa Bani Odeh whose parents and their two young children were murdered by occupation forces on last Saturday, demands justice and above all demands an end to the occupation “for as long as the occupation continues crimes like these are not rare, they are a part of our daily lives.”

As the Trump administration turns the screw on Cuba in an attempt at regime change, media are showing renewed interest in Havana Syndrome, the discredited theory that U.S. officials and secret agents are being targeted by a heretofore unknown directed energy weapon, making them sick.

“I just think there’s a total lack of trust in what the federal government will do,” says Alaska state Sen. Bill Wielechowski.

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative.

As Ramadan comes to a close, families in Minab, Iran struggle to come to terms with the scale of death, one of the deadliest single attacks on children in memory.

The Cuban Government, with China’s support, is rapidly deploying 5,000 solar systems, focused on hospitals, polyclinics and maternal homes, as well as water pumping stations and telecommunications nodes, to combat a severe energy crisis exacerbated by U.S. sanctions.

“We understood that producing green coffee was not enough. The only solution was to advance toward control over the entire production process.”

Regime change is possible but not inevitable. Forces claiming to be leftist and claiming to be revolutionary must actually live up to the true meaning of those words.

Wars destroy cities and take lives. They also shake the world economy.

Social Metabolism: Beyond the “Thing-ness” of the World.

The death of Jürgen Habermas closes the life of one of the most influential intellectual figures of postwar Europe.