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  • US President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden. Photo by Daniel Torok.

    Democracy dies in daylight

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 7, 2025 by Derek Sayer (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2025)

    The great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

  • PROTESTS IN THOMAS PAINE PARK AGAINST THE DETENTION OF PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST AND COLUMBIA STUDENT MAHMOUD KHALIL, MARCH 10, 2025. (PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

    Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘Letter to Columbia’ from jail

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on April 6, 2025 by Mahmoud Khalil (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2025)

    In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump administration.

  • Marco Rubio

    Exxon, Essequibo and imperialism

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 1, 2025 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2025)

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.

  • JEWISH STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS COME TOGETHER AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC, ON MAY 2, 2024. (PHOTO: TED EYTAN/FLICKR)

    The Jewish community cannot center fears about ‘Jewish safety’ while supporting genocide in Gaza

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on April 5, 2025 by Joseph Levine (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2025)

    Because the Jewish community has not shown the minimal moral capacity to call out genocide I cannot take concern around alleged pro-Palestine antisemitism seriously as it appears to just be a strategy to aid and abet Israel’s crimes.

  • Cholla Power Plant, near Joseph City, Arizona. Photo by PDTillman/Wikimedia Commons.

    Canada’s support for LNG is support for Trump’s new form of fossil-fuelled fascism

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 4, 2025 by Nick Gottlieb (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2025)

    Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.

  • Protesters gather in front of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, April 5, 2025.

    Millions protest across the U.S. against Trump’s efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on April 6, 2025 by WSWS Staff (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Apr 07, 2025)

    The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.

  • Two views on the nature of America's political problems. Only one leads us to reform.

    The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South

    Originally published: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on April 3, 2025 by Chandra Childers (more by Economic Policy Institute (EPI))  | (Posted Apr 07, 2025)

    Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four

  • Def. Ministry delivers Nasir cruise missiles to IRGC Navy. Source: Mehd News Agency - wikicommons / cropped form original / CC BY 4.0

    Trump’s war plans for Iran: opening the other gates of hell

    Originally published: Counterfire on April 4, 2025 by Chris Bambery (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Apr 07, 2025)

    There are many signs that Trump’s administration, supported by Israel, is intent on war with Iran, but the military realities point to a very dangerous quagmire, argues Chris Bambery.

  • 17-year-old Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad died in Megiddo prison. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ahmad family)

    17-year-old Palestinian child prisoner starved to death by Israeli prison guards

    Originally published: Defense for Children International - Palestine on April 3, 2-25 (more by Defense for Children International - Palestine)  | (Posted Apr 07, 2025)

    Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died while held in Israeli custody in Megiddo prison in northern Israel on the morning of March 22 after collapsing in the prison yard, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine.

  • Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World

    Review: Marijam Did – “Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 31, 2025 by Vladimir Rizov (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 05, 2025)

    Videogames are everywhere.

  • President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 2, 2025. [AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein]

    Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” escalate economic war against the world

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on April 3, 2025 by Nick Beams (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Apr 05, 2025)

    The imposition of the new U.S. tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world.

  • Official White House photo Faith leaders pray over President Donald Trump after he signed an executive order establishing the White House Faith Office, February 2025.

    Wrapped in the flag, waving the cross

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on April 3, 2025 by Isabel Rodriguez (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 05, 2025)

    Trump’s newly installed “Faith Office” raises concerns about religious freedom and equality amid his embrace of the Christian nationalist right.

  • 300 children over past 10 days in Gaza

    UNICEF says Israel has killed more than 300 children over past 10 days in Gaza

    Originally published: Radio Havana Cuba, edited on April 1, 2025 by Ed Newman (more by Radio Havana Cuba, edited)  | (Posted Apr 04, 2025)

    The United Nations agency reports that at least 322 children were killed and 609 were injured in the Gaza Strip over the past 10 days, following the resumption of Israeli bombing on March 18, 2025.

  • Man holds sign that reads, "We Don't Want Refugees" during the nationalist march in the Dominican Republic on March 30. Photo: screenshot

    Anti-Haitian protest in the Dominican Republic turns deadly, nationalists call for intensifying mass deportations

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 2, 2025 by Devin B. Martinez (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 04, 2025)

    The far-right Antigua Orden group led a xenophobic protest calling for the expulsion of Haitian migrants, echoing Trump-style anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  • Sen. Dick Durbin

    With Section 230 repeal, Dems and media offer Trump new censorship tools

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 31, 2025 by Julianne Tveten (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    In a move that threatens to constrain online communication, congressional Democrats are partnering with their Republican counterparts to repeal a niche but crucial internet law.

  • Educational Resources - Baltimore's Civil Rights Heritage

    A cowardly attack on disabled students

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on March 31, 2025 by Mike Ervin (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.

  • Stop the war on Black people!

    Trump wants a super bigot to be ambassador to South Africa

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 1, 2025 by Stephen Millies (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    Trump and his daddy, Fred Trump–who was arrested while participating in a 1927 Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens, New York–refused to rent to Black families.

  • Agus Suwage (Indonesia), Circus of Democracy I, 1997.

    Students protest continue in Indonesia

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on March 30, 2025 by Max Lane (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    Over the last several weeks, demonstrations have erupted across Indonesia.

  • Columbia faculty calling for an end to repression of student organizers. Photo: Wyatt Souers

    The tenth demand?

    Originally published: Balkinization on March 31, 2025 by David Pozen (more by Balkinization) (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.

  • 187 schools including 55 pre-schools damaged in Israeli attacks towards Gaza - Middle East Monitor

    Scholasticide at the American Historical Association

    Originally published: Tempest on February 26, 2025 by Daniel Johnson (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2025)

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision

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