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  • AIM members are showing up in force in Minneapolis to protect the community in the 2026 unrest. Here, an AIM members attends a demonstration in 2020 in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Credit: Photo by John Arthur Anderson

    ‘Full Circle’: AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise

    Originally published: Indian Country Today on January, 17, 2026 by Stewart Huntington (more by Indian Country Today)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2026)

    Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE.

  • (FILE) Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: EFE.

    Netanyahu to join U.S.-led Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ despite ICC War Crimes warrant

    Originally published: teleSUR English on January 21, 2026 by Victor Miranda - LVM (Al-Jazeera Source) (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2026)

    Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join a U.S.-led “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s post-ceasefire future, a move announced despite an active International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  • Protest against ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 10, 2026 | Image credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr

    Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and resisting authoritarianism

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on January 20, 2026 by Alexandria Shaner (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2026)

    We can hope that social strikes will not be necessary to limit and ultimately end MAGA tyranny.

  • The Voice of Hind Rajab

    Unimaginable terror: ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ review

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 18, 2026 by Katherine Hajiyianni (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2026)

    Winning eight awards at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, this is a heart-rending account of the final hours of a 5 year-old Palestinian girl awaiting rescue and a magnificent tribute to her and the children of Gaza, finds Katherine Hajiyianni.

  • Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) and First Lady Celia Flores (L). X/ @yosu__pp

    China proposes international collaboration to defend Venezuelan sovereignty and regional peace

    Originally published: teleSUR English on January 20, 2026 by Bruno Falci (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Jan 21, 2026)

    Beijing condemns U.S. terrorist action against Venezuela, demands immediate release of President Maduro.

  • General Strike

    80 years without a general strike. Then ICE came to Minneapolis

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 19, 2026 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 21, 2026)

    For most of U.S. history, general strikes have been rare–not because workers lacked the will to fight, but because the ruling class moved quickly and violently whenever that power surfaced.

  • Federal law enforcement agents confront anti-ICE protesters during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 15, 2026. (Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images)

    The door-to-door terror in Minneapolis

    Originally published: WBUR 90.9 FM on January 18, 2026 by Nancy Gertner (more by WBUR 90.9 FM)  | (Posted Jan 21, 2026)

    In this country, no one is required to produce identification papers. In this country, no government official has a right to demand them of someone about whom the officer knows nothing.

  • The South African Communist Party (SACP) under fiery Secretary-General Solly Mapaila is coordinating a conference of the left to discuss challenges as the party prepares to contest local government elections alone.

    ‘Poor people speaking with one voice’: SACP to host conference of left-wing organisations

    Originally published: iol on January 19, 2026 by Willem Phungula (more by iol)  | (Posted Jan 21, 2026)

    The SACP has long announced that it will contest local government elections separately from the ANC.

  • Karl Marx

    Strategy, Political Theory and Relations of Production in the Gotha Programme — Giannis Ninos

    Originally published: Legal Form on January 16, 2026 by Dr. Giannis Ninos (more by Legal Form) (Posted Jan 19, 2026)

    Marxism, in both its classical and later forms, unites theoretical analysis with political positions.

  • US President Donald Trump holds a framed Nobel Peace Prize medal given to him by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado—the actual 2025 winner—at the White House in Washington, DC on January 15, 2026. (Photo by the White House)

    Trump isn’t the first to be gifted a Nobel Prize he didn’t win—Joseph Goebbels got one too

    Originally published: Common Dreams on January 16, 2026 by Brett Wilkins (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jan 19, 2026)

    In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize for Literature to the infamous Nazi criminal.

  • Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez (center), accompanied by National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez (left) and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello (right), holds a press conference, Caracas, Venezuela, January 14, 2026. Photo: Ding Hongfa/Xinhua News.

    Trump neither selected Delcy Rodríguez nor Governs Venezuela

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on January 17, 2026 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Jan 19, 2026)

    Trump’s explicitly colonial language has also included the use of bullying as a tactic of provocation, as he recently proclaimed himself “interim president” of Venezuela in a post on Truth Social.

  • Families living in makeshift tents amid the rubble light fires for warmth during harsh winter weather in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, 12 January. Omar Ashtawy APA images

    Babies die of hypothermia in Gaza as Israel blocks shelters

    Originally published: The Electronic Intifada on January 16, 2026 by Nora Barrows-Friedman (more by The Electronic Intifada)  | (Posted Jan 19, 2026)

    The following is from the news roundup during the 15 January livestream. Watch the entire episode here. Israel continues to kill and injure Palestinians across the Gaza Strip while the Israeli blockade remains firmly in place, despite nearly 100 days since the so-called ceasefire was agreed upon in October 2025. Israeli attacks killed at least […]

  • Homeland Security and ICE agents carry Aliya Rahman after detaining her at East 34th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis on Jan. 13, 2026, amid a massive federal operation that community members and city leaders have condemned as an unlawful occupation of the neighborhood. Photo: Chris Juhn/Sahan Journal

    Bombing Somalia, raiding Minnesota: Two fronts of the same war

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 15, 2026 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2026)

    The intensified bombardment of Somalia and the assault on Somali communities in Minnesota are not separate policies.

  • “Ensuring American Space Superiority.”

    America’s new space superiority order is a threat to global human security

    Originally published: Countercurrents on January 15, 2026 by Ghassan Shahrour (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2026)

    On December 18, 2025, the White House issued an executive order titled “Ensuring American Space Superiority.”

  • Harry Hopkins

    The last honest American go-between the White House and the Kremlin died eighty years ago

    Originally published: Dances with Bears on January 15, 2026 by John Helmer (more by Dances with Bears) (Posted Jan 17, 2026)

    On his way to meet Joseph Stalin in July 1941, Harry Hopkins landed just out of range of German guns on a Moscow city airfield which, later, stretched a few hundred metres from my kitchen window.

  • Thomas A. Bass, Return to Fukushima (London: O/R Books, 2025), 197pp.

    Return to Fukushima – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on January 15, 2026 by Elaine Graham-Leigh (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2026)

    Thomas Bass shows how insistence that nuclear power is a safe answer to energy needs is contradicted by the reality of the Fukushima disaster’s aftermath, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh.

  • LA Airport

    U.S. halts immigrant visa process from 75 nations amid crackdown

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on January 14, 2026 by News Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2026)

    U.S. suspends immigrant visas from 75 nations, including Brazil, Egypt, Thailand, and Somalia, under “public charge” rules.

  • Trump - World Cup

    World Cup boycott calls grow in response to Trump

    Originally published: Mexico Solidarity Media on January 13, 2026 by Alberto Aceves (more by Mexico Solidarity Media)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2026)

    The drums of protest and calls to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup are beating louder in the United States.

  • McGill University pro-Palestinian encampment. Photo by WikiFouf/Wikimedia Commons.

    A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 13, 2026 by Shiri Pasternak, Charles Z. Levkoe and Jillian Rogin (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2026)

    Increasing repression against pro-Palestine students is happening now—we must stop it

  • Rachel Dionne Thunder, an Indigenous activist, shares her experience of federal agents attempting to detain her on Jan. 9.

    ICE detains Indigenous people in Minneapolis, tribes cite treaty violations

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 14, 2026 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 15, 2026)

    The Oglala Sioux Tribe confirmed that ICE is holding four Oglala Lakota people who were arrested near the Little Earth housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood.

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  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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