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  • Chilean Communist Party leader Jeannette Jara in a photo composition with sketches of Santiago and the Chilean flag. Photo: Eduardo Ramón/El País.

    Chile: A major victory for the People and the Left, with strategic impact

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on July 4, 2025 by El Siglo (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Jul 09, 2025)

    The victory of Jeannette Jara in the ruling coalition’s primary is a major triumph for the people and the left.

  • Black Lives Matter protest, London 2020. Photo: Steve Eason / CC BY-NC 2.0

    Where do ideas come from? And how can they change?

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 7, 2025 by Alex Snowdon (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 09, 2025)

    Alex Snowdon explains the Marxist view of how ideas develop and how socialists seek to change the world.

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    China strikes Diabetes

    Originally published: Countercurrents on July 7, 2025 by Bhabani Shankar Nayak (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jul 09, 2025)

    Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.

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    Big Beautiful Cover Up: Epstein, ICE, and the MAGA War State

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 7, 2025 by Greg Stoker (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Jul 09, 2025)

    The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures.

  • Abraham Shield Plan

    The Abraham Shield: Israel’s new blueprint for regional control after Gaza

    Originally published: DD Geopolitics on June 26, 2025 by Sarah B. (more by DD Geopolitics) (Posted Jul 08, 2025)

    From Gaza to Tehran, a multi-front strategy of surveillance, subcontracted occupation, and permanent containment.

  • An Iranian cleric walks past a mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy

    NYT – Guessing about Iran with ‘experts’ who lack knowledge of it

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on June 30, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jul 08, 2025)

    A lot of the misunderstanding U.S. policy makers have of foreign countries is caused by the lousy reporting in U.S. media.

  • A supporter of Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter after he shot a wounded Palestinian as he lay on the ground in Hebron, holds a placard during a protest calling for his release in Tel Aviv on April 19. (© Baz Ratner / Reuters/REUTERS)

    The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex and Israel’s war machine

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on July 6, 2025 by S Krishnaswamy (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2025)

    ISRAEL’s genocide in Gaza and the 12-day war between Israel and Iran saw Israel destroying all universities in Gaza and assassinating top scientists of Iran. Not a tear or word of condemnation from the U.S. and European powers.

  • Picture: Daderot. Public Domain

    China is not a monolith

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on July 1, 2025 by Brandon Warner (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2025)

    The Communist Party and socialist construction.

  • Islamesque

    ‘Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments’ – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 3, 2025 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2025)

    Diana Darke’s brilliant history of medieval architecture reveals the extent of Islamic influence on the foundational phase of Western European art and buildings, finds Dominic Alexander.

  • PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TRY TO GET SOME FOOD FROM ONE OF THE CHARITABLE HOSPICES IN DEIR AL-BALAH IN THE CENTRAL GAZA STRIP. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY/APA IMAGES)

    Every child is precious unless that child is Palestinian

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on July 6, 2025 by Dina Elmuti (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2025)

    The world professes reverence for childhood, but hollow platitudes about universal children’s rights aren’t meant for the colonized.

  • Unhoused Why?

    Unhoused why? It’s always about the land

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 18, 2025 by Terri Frick (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    Homelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy.

  • Xi Jinping met with the Ali Khamenei / Wikimedia commons / CC BY 4.0

    The New Silk Road and the threat to American domination

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 27, 2025 by Kevin Crane (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.

  • Syria U.S.

    Behind the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran

    Originally published: RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India on June 26, 2025 by RUPE India Staff (more by RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India) (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    It is just six months into Trump’s presidency, and he has waged direct military assaults on two countries, Yemen and Iran. Many of Trump’s supporters were surprised by this, for he had campaigned on a platform of ending U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

  • Helvetia protects Thomas Röper and Alina Lipp

    Switzerland draws lines and does not collaborate in the persecution of journalists

    Originally published: Sonar21 on June 27, 2025 by Peter Haenseler (more by Sonar21) (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    The Swiss rule of law is awakening. After accepting all EU sanctions against Russia up to now, Switzerland is drawing a line for the first time and refuses to prosecute journalists – bravo!

  • A 2010 advertisement for Blender, a concept store, created by advertising agency Rafineri

    The everyday horror of modern sexism

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 26, 2025 by Anneke Demanuele (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    Women are conditioned to accept sexism, but they are also able to rebel against it in the right circumstances.

  • Demonstrators hold up signs opposing President Donald Trump and his attack on birthright citizenship outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2025. (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

    By limiting nationwide injunctions, Supreme Court declares ‘open season on all our rights’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 27, 2025 by Jessica Corbett (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    In a ruling that stems from the president’s birthright citizenship order, the “conservative supermajority just took away lower courts’ single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration’s lawless excesses.”

  • Petting Nuclear Bomb. (Photo: Imagen/Google)

    The day a nuclear Iran was born

    Originally published: Amwaj.Media on June 26, 2025 by Enrique Mora (more by Amwaj.Media) (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.

  • Crussade 20 months in, 77 years and counting. (Photo: Al Mayadeen / Batoul Chamas)

    Which hedge fund owns this sea?

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on June 25, 2025 by Taylor Miller (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    In Gaza, starvation is weaponized, aid is corrupted, and humanitarianism is hijacked by profiteers and war criminals posing as saviors, as Taylor Miller exposes in this searing indictment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its genocidal complicity.

  • Paul Sweezy

    Harvard. Renewal of Faculty Instructorship. Case of Paul Sweezy, 1940

    Originally published: Economics in the Rear View Mirror on October 26, 2024 by Irwin Collier (more by Economics in the Rear View Mirror) (Posted Jun 28, 2025)

    The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.

  • The Grim Arithmetic of 377, 000 Missing Palestinians

    The grim arithmetic of 377, 000 missing Palestinians

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 26, 2025 by Maximilian (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 28, 2025)

    A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

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