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    Cuba: Mariela Castro “The World’s problems belong to everyone”

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 12, 2025 by Cubadebate (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted May 16, 2025)

    Following the broadcast of the Round Table on Friday, May 9, dedicated to the 18th Conference Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the Miami press took excerpts from the program and began a campaign to manipulate its content.

  • Human Shields in Gaza

    One side routinely uses human shields in Gaza—but not the side that’s usually blamed

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 13, 2025 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted May 16, 2025)

    Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields.

  • Cristin Milioti in Black Mirror Season 7

    Black Mirror still absorbs

    Originally published: Counterfire on May 13, 2025 by Lucy Nichols (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted May 15, 2025)

    The latest season of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian hit series Black Mirror reflects a world shattered by capitalism, argues Lucy Nichols.

  • White South Africans rallying in support of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, last month. Photo; Joao Silva/The New York Times

    Fleeing imaginary persecution at home, South African ‘refugees’ may find the grass is not greener in America

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 14, 2025 by Jon Jeter (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted May 15, 2025)

    The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming “persecution”—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resources decades after apartheid allegedly ended.

  • The Cradle

    India and Pakistan lock horns: Who won and why?

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 12, 2025 by The Cradle's Military Correspondent (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted May 15, 2025)

    In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.

  • Law concept: habeas corpus. Under United States law, a writ of habeas corpus is a command from a court to the custodian of a particular individual (usually the state or federal prison system) to release that individual. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a common mechanism by which a criminal case can be reviewed even after the appellate process has run its course.

    Trump administration moves to eliminate Habeas Corpus

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 12, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 14, 2025)

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE—the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus—a constitutional right that allows individuals to challenge unlawful detention.

  • Patriot | Missile Threat

    The real Trump revealed

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on May 10, 2025 by Boyko Nikolov (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted May 14, 2025)

    On Friday, the United States granted approval for Germany to transfer 125 long-range artillery rockets and 100 Patriot air-defense missiles to Ukraine, a congressional official confirmed to The New York Times.

  • Piman Khrutmuang

    Tariffs on medications will make America sick

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on May 6, 2025 by Eric Feigl-Ding (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted May 14, 2025)

    We might soon see the Trump Administration impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals. U.S. patients will suffer.

  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025

    Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 12, 2025 by Morning Star Online Staff (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 14, 2025)

    The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.

  • A view of the destruction after the Israeli military targeted a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) building in Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. May 10, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    As Gaza starves, Israel attacked UNRWA Food Distribution Center

    Originally published: Drop Site News on May 11, 2025 by Hamza M. Salha and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (more by Drop Site News) (Posted May 14, 2025)

    Israel is targeting Palestinians’ slim means of accessing food, bombing two makeshift kitchens and UNRWA’s distribution center in Jabalia in the past few days.

  • BRAIN DRAIN slideshare.net

    America’s great brain drain

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on May 10, 2025 by Robert Hunziker (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted May 13, 2025)

    America’s shores are experiencing a huge sucking sound as one of the biggest brain drains of modern history hits the country’s best, smartest, heading for Europe on grants, as smiles abound across the pond.

  • 1857 War of Independence

    Commemorating the 168th anniversary of 1857 War of Independence

    Originally published: Countercurrents on May 9, 2025 by Shamsul Islam (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted May 13, 2025)

    LET NOT THE HINDUTVA RULERS UNDO THE GREAT HERITAGE OF JOINT SACRIFICES.

  • Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Ilan Pappé

    “Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Ilan Pappé” – Review

    Originally published: Socialist Voice on May 1, 2025 by Pádraig Mac Oscair (more by Socialist Voice)  | (Posted May 13, 2025)

    The pro-Palestine movement has never been more prominent in the West, but Western governments and corporations are still committed to the success of the Zionist project.

  • Photo: @bara.api

    Activists warn of the growing militarisation of the Indonesian government under General Prawobo

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on May 11, 2025 by Roser Gari Perez (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted May 13, 2025)

    Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.

  • New York City retirees protest attempts to priviatize their Medicare.

    Medicare Advantage: The $1.2 trillion in government waste that Trump won’t cut

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 9, 2025 by Catherine Henchek (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget calls for up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years to help fund massive tax cuts for the rich.

  • THIS is post racial America!!!

    America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising

    Originally published: America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising on May 2025 by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (more by America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising) (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.

  • Columbia University Student Protest

    Columbia University suspends 65 anti-genocide students over library protest

    Originally published: Quds News Network on May 10, 2025 by Editing Team (more by Quds News Network)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  • Kehlani in the music video for their song "Next 2 U"

    Artists reject censorship of Pro-Palestine musician Kehlani after NYC concert cancellation

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 10, 2025 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Boots Riley, Kneecap, Residente and dozens of other artists have signed an open letter protesting the censorship of Kehlani after the NYC mayor’s office pushed for the cancellation of her pride concert.

  • Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival in Zagreb, 2013 CREDIT: ROBERT CRC VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

    You Can’t Please All – review

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 15, 2025 by Sheila Rowbotham (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 10, 2025)

    Tariq Ali’s second memoir demonstrates his depth as a radical writer and thinker, writes Sheila Rowbotham.

  • BAP demonstration in Washington DC gathered outside the Embassy of Burkina Faso, in defense of the Alliance for Sahel States, October 2024.

    Now is the time for all anti-imperialists and all justice loving people to stand unequivocally in defense of Burkina Faso

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on May 5, 2025 by Black Alliance for Peace Staff (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    BAP and USOAN call on all anti-imperialist forces to join in active defense of Burkina Faso, demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent, and ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011.

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