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Venezuela and the Imperialist Offensive: A Conversation with Hernán Vargas (Part I)
Today, the United States is acting according to its own rules. On January 3, it sent a message not only to Venezuela but to the entire continent: it remains the most powerful military force on the planet, and it is prepared to use that force.
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Iran secured last-minute concessions over Hormuz, Lebanon MoU clauses
Tasnim reports that last-minute changes happened in the Iran–U.S. memorandum talks, including Hormuz navigation terms, the Lebanon clause, fee exemptions, and phased reopening timeline.
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Greg Brockman: Meet the ChatGPT billionaire funding Trump, Pushing A.I. and designing hi-tech weapons
OpenAI is increasingly becoming a military contractor, as 21st century battlefields become progressively automated.
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Court throws out cases against NewsClick and founder Prabir Purkayashta, calls them ‘gross abuse of the process of law’
NewsClick and various unions welcomed the verdict, hailing the Delhi High Court ruling as a strong stand in support of independent journalism and a warning against the misuse of state power.
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Wall Street and Musk loot workers’ retirement funds
When SpaceX shares began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, the trap was already set.
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3 alarming signs Elon Musk wealth marks a new era of corporate tech fascism
Elon Musk wealth has made him the first trillionaire, after SpaceX’s Nasdaq debut exposed extreme inequality, speculative finance, and corporate power.
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The politics of reading
Why understanding a book means understanding the world that produced it.
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Is France funding terrorism in the Sahel?
In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.
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Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults–regardless of insurance type–reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.
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How Obama, Trump, and Biden blocked court action on climate
My claim that our rulers are guilty of social murder does not hinge on formal legal or constitutional arguments.
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The first Pride was a riot
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.
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India signals rethink over West Asia
Rare consensus-making effort. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal addresses Inter- Ministerial Briefing on Recent Developments in West Asia, in New Delhi.
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Cuba and Internationalism Under Siege: From the Tricontinental to Today
The legacy of the Tricontinental lives on in Cuba’s internationalism, even as sanctions continue to constrain the island.
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No agreement yet on Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding: Baghaei
Previously, Trump claimed a deal ending the conflict had already been reached.
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Capitalism: A Global History – book review
This enormous history of capitalism provides much fascinating detail, but its flawed conceptualisation of the system’s history undermines it, argues Dominic Alexander.
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DHS Docs: Govt bracing for Nationwide anti-AI riots, preparing to crack down on dissent
It remains to be seen to what extent A.I. will actually become a revolutionary technology, but what is clear is that the U.S. government is preparing for major economic and social disruption in its wake.
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The chimera of a reformed capitalism
Today India has a level of income inequality higher than at any time in the previous one hundred years, and one of the highest in the world
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Warning: Trump’s rolling coup is already underway
And what must be done to stop it.
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Blaming the Victim: Ada Ferrer’s Letter to the Cuban President
Ferrer’s short article offers an excellent example of a simple truth: even many apparently moderate, intellectually sophisticated observers accept the basic premises of U.S. government policy toward Cuba.
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The world needs a living Left: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2026)
As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.
