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  • Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park in Tianjin, one of the earliest sponge city projects in China. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

    Don’t believe the New Cold War lies, China is leading the world in climate solutions

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 15, 2025 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 22, 2025)

    At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.

  • Dr. Amos C. Brown on Let It Be Known 04/29/2025

    Dr. Amos C. Brown calls out Smithsonian over returned artifacts, warns of Trump-era attacks on Black History

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on April 30, 2025 by BlackPress of America (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 22, 2025)

    Dr. Brown said the museum had previously asked to keep the items permanently. “Now, all of a sudden, you can have it back,” he said. “There was no conversation. Just an email.”

  • A British soldier kicks anti-colonial demonstrators in Yemen, 1967. Keir Starmer bombed the country last month. (Photo: AP / Alamy)

    The Empire never died

    Originally published: Declassified UK on May 19, 2025 by Mark Curtis (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted May 22, 2025)

    The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.

  • Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

    Two million people at risk of impending famine in Gaza, WHO chief warns

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on May 19, 2025 (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted May 21, 2025)

    The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed alarm on Monday over the increasing risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, where “two million people are starving,” according to him.

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X: A legacy of struggle at 100

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 19, 2025 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 21, 2025)

    One hundred years after his birth, 60 years after his assassination, Malcolm X is synonymous globally with revolutions and all forms of militant struggle by exploited and oppressed people.

  • Boat house on Cameron Island on Lake Joseph in Muskoka

    The supply and demand myth of housing

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on May 8, 2025 by James Hardwick (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    Simply building new homes isn’t enough to solve the housing crisis—what we build and for whom matters a lot more.

  • Protests at the University of Durban-Westville Campus, May 1972. Source: Van Niekerk Collection, No: 1152/518. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Special Collections, Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre.

    Anti-apartheid activism and the discipline of geography

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on May 14, 2025 by Ruth Craggs and Hannah Neate (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    Geographers working in South African universities in the 1980s were part of a segregated system in which institutions were designated for each of the so-called ‘racial groups’: Black African (also divided further by language group), Coloured, Indian, and White.

  • SMOKE RISES OVER RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS FOLLOWING AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON THE TUFFAH NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE EASTERN PART OF GAZA CITY, MAY 9, 2025. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY/APA IMAGES)

    Israel just launched its offensive to permanently ‘conquer’ Gaza as Trump’s Arab Gulf tour wraps up

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 17, 2025 by Qassam Muaddi and Tareq S. Hajjaj (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    Israel announced the initial phase of “Gideon’s chariots,” the expanded ground invasion to permanently “conquer” Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and will reportedly expel 1 million Gazans to Libya.

  • This series of photos was shared on the official Instagram account of the U.S. government-operated Voice of America - Africa radio network on Feb. 15, 2025, with the caption: "White South Africans gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Pretoria...to show their support for U.S. President Donald Trump after he criticized what he terms 'unjust' treatment of White South Africans." | Photos via @voaafrica on Instagram

    Afrikaner ‘refugee’ arrival is latest tactic in Trump’s South Africa destabilization campaign

    Originally published: People's World on May 16, 2025 by Emile Schepers (more by People's World)  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.

  • Foto: IRENA

    Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time

    Originally published: Carbon Brief on May 15, 2025 by Lauri Myllyvirta (more by Carbon Brief)  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

  • Wood gavel and open handcuffs symbolizing freeing judge decisions

    High Court opens door to police accountability

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 15, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 19, 2025)

    The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a judicial doctrine that for years shielded law enforcement officers from civil liability in police shooting cases by allowing courts to assess force based only on the final moments before an officer pulled the trigger.

  • Summer-like slug of heat pushes across much of North America

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on May 15, 2025 by Bob Henson (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted May 19, 2025)

    Temperatures hit 100°F in northern Minnesota, 112°F in Texas, and 115°F in Mexico.

  • Image depicting the damage at the European Hospital in Khan Younis following an Israeli airstrike on 13 May 2025. (BBC)

    Compound crime: Israeli army blocks rescue efforts after airstrike on Khan Younis

    Originally published: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor on May 18, 2025 by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Staff (more by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor)  | (Posted May 19, 2025)

    The Israeli military’s targeting of rescue teams and paramedics during efforts to evacuate the wounded and extract survivors trapped under rubble in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, constitutes a compound war crime.

  • Aerial view of Santa Rita strip copper mine near Silver City, NM

    Donald Trump’s feverish lust for green energy resources

    Originally published: TomDispatch on May 11, 2025 by Joshua Frank (more by TomDispatch) (Posted May 17, 2025)

    It’s Not About the Climate, It’s About Greed.

  • Floyd

    People get ready: Protest on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

    Originally published: Fight Back News on May 14, 2025 by African-American Commission of FRSO (more by Fight Back News) (Posted May 17, 2025)

    To defeat Trump’s agenda, we need a movement that unites all who can be united, and is ready to stand up and fight back. If the pardon rumors become reality, meet us in the streets.

  • An image of the Grok logo, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, and it's founder, South African businessman Elon Musk, in Toulouse, France, on 13 January 2025 (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP)

    AI chatbot Grok can’t stop talking about ‘white genocide’, admits it’s by design

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on May 15, 2025 by MEE Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted May 17, 2025)

    Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about ‘white genocide’, revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it.

  • Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica. Photo: Presidencia de Colombia

    Life and death of José Mujica, the guerrilla fighter who became president

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 15, 2025 by Pablo Meriguet (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 17, 2025)

    A deeper look at the life of one of the most emblematic Latin American presidents of recent years, who went from armed struggle to a prison that lasted more than a decade, to the country’s presidency.

  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Republican-Louisiana) speaking as President Trump listens. [AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee]

    Republicans move forward with plan to cut an estimated $715 billion in Medicaid funding

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on May 14, 2025 by Jacob Crosse (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted May 16, 2025)

    In a massive attack on the working class, on Sunday, House Republicans confirmed that their main proposal for offsetting some of their planned $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and mega-corporations will come in the form of at least $880 billion in cuts to social programs, centered on Medicaid.

  • President Donald Trump in 2019 at the International Chiefs of Police Association meeting in Chicago. Public domain.

    Trump’s executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement and expand police impunity

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 14, 2025 by Ahmed Jaber (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 16, 2025)

    In April, Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” that hands sweeping new powers to police, guts hard-won reforms and punishes cities that refuse to fall in line.

  • photo: Cenesex

    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.

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