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  • 600 children killed in renewed Israeli assault on Gaza

    UN agency says nearly 600 children killed in renewed Israeli assault on Gaza

    Originally published: Radio Havana Cuba, edited on April 21, 2025 by Ed Newman (more by Radio Havana Cuba, edited)  | (Posted Apr 23, 2025)

    UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.

  • Sophia Rosenfeld The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

    ‘Racism and ‘Free Speech’’ by Anshuman A Mondal, ’The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life’ by Sophia Rosenfeld reviewed by Guy Lancaster

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 22, 2025 by Guy Lancaster (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 23, 2025)

    ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

  • RESISTANCE: An anti-Trump protest at the White House, Washington DC

    Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education

    Originally published: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on April 17, 2025 by Hilary Wething and Emma Cohn (more by Economic Policy Institute (EPI))  | (Posted Apr 22, 2025)

    See how much federal funding your school district could lose.

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Washington would take away any visa that has previously been issued if students participated in social activism (Julien de Rosa/Reuters)

    U.S. revokes around 1,500 student visas, universities say they weren’t notified

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on April 18, 2025 by Syma Mohammed (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2025)

    Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database.

  • CECOT prison in El Salvador. Photo: Nayib Bukele/X

    CECOT: Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 18, 2025 by Devin B. Martinez (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2025)

    The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.

  • A Political Life by Hugo Ott

    Heidegger’s feeble excuses

    Originally published: Philosophy Now on Issue 18 by John Mann (more by Philosophy Now) (Posted Apr 21, 2025)

    Martin Heidegger was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    Diego Garcia: Ethnically cleansed for U.S. forever wars

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 18, 2025 by Aidan J. Simardone (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2025)

    As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

  • The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order

    The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 17, 2025 by Ian Sinclair (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2025)

    Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR.

  • Harvard University Widener Library [Photo by Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0]

    Trump threatens to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and visas for international students

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on April 18. 2025 by Kevin Reed (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Apr 19, 2025)

    On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.

  • U.S. Export – by Mr. Fish

    American concentration camps

    Originally published: ScheerPost on April 17, 2025 (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Apr 19, 2025)

    Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.

  • National Museum of African American History and Culture

    Trump orders purge of Black History from Smithsonian, targets African American Museum

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on March 28, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Apr 18, 2025)

    The executive order is chillingly titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It declares that the Smithsonian, once a symbol of “American excellence,” has become tainted by narratives that portray “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”

  • DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA, ON JUNE 6, 2024. (PHOTO: GAGE SKIDMORE/WIKIMEDIA)

    How the Trump administration is using civil rights complaints over ‘antisemitism’ to end DEI and quash dissent on Palestine

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on April 17, 2025 by Amira Jarmakani (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2025)

    The Trump administration’s recent investigation of 60 schools for “antisemitic discrimination” appeared to target campus protests. But, a closer look shows it was driven by pro-Israel groups’ use of civil rights law to push a broad right-wing agenda.

  • Dharmadam becomes the first Assembly Constituency in Kerala to be declared free of extreme poverty. Photo: Pinarayi Vijayan/X

    Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 16, 2025 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2025)

    A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty.

  • Students applaud next to a Palestinian flag, as the 13 students who have been barred from graduating due to protest activities are recognized by a student address speaker, during commencement in Harvard Yard, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 23, 2024. [AP Photo/Ben Curtis]

    Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on April 16, 2025 by David Walsh (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Apr 17, 2025)

    On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.

  • Cuban doctors arrive in South Africa in 2020 to support efforts to curb COVID-19. Credit: Flickr/governmentza (CC BY-ND 2.0)

    No, Marco Rubio, Cuban doctors are not victims of ‘forced labor’

    Originally published: Liberation on April 12, 2025 by Cecilia Paz (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2025)

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.

  • BMW Mini plant in Oxford, England / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0

    Absolute car crash

    Originally published: Counterfire on April 11, 2025 by Kevin Cane (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2025)

    As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.

  • SA

    Oligarchy and the subversion of democracy–warnings from South Africa

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on April 11, 2025 by Wim Naudé (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Apr 16, 2025)

    The world has an oligarchy problem.

  • Demonstrators hold banner reading “Southern Command out of Panama.” Panama City, April 8.

    The camouflaged U.S. invasion of Panama

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 13, 2025 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2025)

    Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country.

  • Encampment

    Judge blocks deportation of Columbia protest organizer Mahdawi

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on April 15, 2025 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2025)

    A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.

  • Daniel Noboa

    Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 14, 2025 by Oscar León (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2025)

    President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.

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