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  • Trump’s tariffs

    Trump’s tariffs will not restore American manufacturing

    Originally published: Pearls and Irritations on February 20, 2025 by Michael Keating (more by Pearls and Irritations) (Posted Feb 22, 2025)

    The decline in manufacturing jobs is common to most developed economies and is not unique to the U.S. Further, Donald Trump is nothing if not delusional, and his tariffs will only damage both the U.S. economy and others as well.

  • People in New York City's borough of Brooklyn protest against the 'selling' of land in the occupied West Bank by an Israeli real estate company, on 18 February (Haseeb Amin/Supplied)

    NYC real estate expo promoting sale of ‘stolen land’ in Palestine descends into violence

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 18. 2025 by Middle East Eye Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Feb 22, 2025)

    Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.

  • The two Educational Bookshop storefronts that were raided by Israeli police officers. (Photos by Abby Seitz. Graphic effects by Rachel Hawley.)

    ‘They’re trying to make us afraid’: Israel police targets Palestinian bookstores in Jerusalem

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on February 19, 2025 by Abby Seitz (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 22, 2025)

    The arrest of a well-known Palestinian bookstore’s co-owner was part of a pattern of raids and repression, booksellers say.

  • German far-right leader Alice Weidel and US Vice President JD Vance COMPOSITE: Reuters/AP

    Resisting the right-wing vibe shift

    Originally published: Red Flag on February 18, 2025 by Eleanor Morley (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Feb 21, 2025)

    The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.

  • A portrait of Leonard Peltier at the entrance of Oceti Sakowin Camp, 2016.

    A prayer for Leonard Peltier

    Originally published: Red Scare on February 18, 2025 by Nick Estes (more by Red Scare) (Posted Feb 21, 2025)

    Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.

  • Flags of the U.S., Canada and Mexico fly next to each other in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. August 29, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo

    Time to think beyond ‘worthless’ free trade agreements

    Originally published: The Maple on Taylor C. Noakes by February 20, 2025 (more by The Maple) (Posted Feb 21, 2025)

    “Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”

  • 1. Introduction - Introduction to Climate Science

    Disappearing climate science

    Originally published: The Lancet on Volume 9, Issue 2E79 February, 2025 by The Lancet Planetary Health (more by The Lancet) (Posted Feb 21, 2025)

    It was clear during the U.S. presidential election campaign that if re-elected Donald Trump would be no friend to the environment. The assault on climate science and action began immediately.

  • No to the New Cold war with China

    AI for the people? How China’s AI development challenges U.S. big tech

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on February 17, 2025 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Feb 20, 2025)

    The following text is based on a talk given by Gary Wilson at the “Deep Seek and the Challenge to U.S. Technological Hegemony” webinar on Feb. 16, hosted by the Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group.

  • An effigy of US President Donald Trump dressed as a jester is seen at a protest in Washington, DC, on 5 February 2025 (Drew Angerer/AFP)

    Why Washington’s global dominance is hanging by a thread

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 18, 2025 by Hossam el-Hamalawy (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    Trump’s aggression does not reflect strength. He is desperately trying to slow the decline of U.S. empire.

  • In this November 7, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump watches as a White House aide reaches to take away a microphone from CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. [AP Photo/Evan Vucci]

    Corporate media bosses bow to Trump demands

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on February 16, 2025 by Patrick Martin (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press.

  • Curtis Yarvin a/k/a “Mencius Moldbug.” [Source: maxraskin.com]

    Curtis Yarvin is among the crazed pseudo-Fascist thinkers influencing J.D. Vance

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 13, 2025 by Joel Sucher (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.

  • Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

    Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

    Originally published: Liberation School on February 12, 2025 by Walter Rodney (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    One finds that in looking at Marxist theory, at its relevance to race, looking at the relevance of Marxist theory to national emancipation, we come up with a very important paradox.

  • Feb. 7, Lincoln Heights, Ohio – residents of historically Black community converge to drive out armed neo-Nazi group waving swastika flags on I-75 overpass.

    Community drives out Nazis in Ohio

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on February 17, 2025 by Gregory E. Williams (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2025)

    On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags.

  • Credit CBS News

    NYT prints lie – Adds link which debunks it

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 15, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 17, 2025)

    As part of reading up on the JD Vance speech I stumbled over an outrageously arrogant attempt of reader manipulation in the New York Times.

  • Risking a 2008-Style Financial Meltdown

    How climate denial is fueling a U.S. homeowners insurance crisis and risking a 2008-style financial meltdown

    Originally published: Institute for New Economic Thinking on February 13, 2025 by Lynn Parramore (more by Institute for New Economic Thinking)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2025)

    New research reveals that rising insurance costs, reckless building, regulatory inaction, and big banks’ fossil fuel investments are driving a dangerous cycle that jeopardizes homeowners—and financial stability for everyone.

  • Flag of the United States Department of Education.svg - Wikipedia

    PEN America condemns Education Department’s threat to defund schools over DEI programs

    Originally published: PEN America on February 15, 2025 by PEN America Staff (more by PEN America)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2025)

    “We urge educational leaders not to be cowed by the threats of government officials whose erroneous interpretations of the Constitution would undermine the freedom to learn.” – PEN America

  • Jathan Sadowski , The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism (University of California Press 2025), 293pp.

    “The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism” – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on February 13, 2025 by Kevin Crane (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2025)

    Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.

  • January 11, 2002 shows the first 20 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay

    122 years of U.S. imperialism in Guantánamo: From torture to migrant detention

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 11, 2025 by Abraham Marquez (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Feb 15, 2025)

    Donald Trump’s expansion of migrant detention in Guantánamo Bay follows years of torture. Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have always fought for their land to be freed from U.S. imperialism.

  • Gaza

    Trump to Gaza: “We will replace you”

    Originally published: Foreign Policy in Focus on February 12, 2025 by John Feffer (more by Foreign Policy in Focus) (Posted Feb 15, 2025)

    The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.

  • Trump / NOAA

    A day without NOAA, a day without the National Weather Service?

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on February 12, 2025 (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2025)

    What is your morning routine? Wake up, maybe make coffee, tea, or other morning beverage or meal, check the weather.

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