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  • Of Presidential Crooks, Bigots, and Incompetents: Trump Combines All Three

    Trump’s slump

    Originally published: The Next Recession on April 9, 2025 (more by The Next Recession)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2025)

    Where is all this going? Well, it means a slump in production in the U.S. and most major economies; and it means a revival of inflation, particularly in the U.S. This is madness, no? Well, as I said last February when all this kicked off, there is method in this madness.

  • President Donald Trump / PM Benjamin Netanyahu

    ‘Let all Hell break loose’: The Gaza ceasefire and how we all got played

    Originally published: Antiwar.com on April 10, 2025 by Derek Albert Schurbon (more by Antiwar.com) (Posted Apr 12, 2025)

    Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.

  • Rhodes

    The day Rhodes fell: Ten years after

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on April 9, 2025 by Heike Becker (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Apr 11, 2025)

    Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.

  • A look back and a look forward at the big stories on the environment

    Trump declares all state environmental laws to be null and void

    Originally published: Diane Ravitch Blog on April 10, 2025 by Diane Ravitch (more by Diane Ravitch Blog) (Posted Apr 11, 2025)

    Trump signed an executive order declaring all state laws that address climate change to be null and void.

  • A poster of Nelson Mandela decorates a wall in Johannesburg, 2020. (Credit: Gregory Fullard via Unsplash)

    The anti-anti-Apartheid Movement

    Originally published: Tribune on April 10, 2025 by Richard Pithouse (more by Tribune)  | (Posted Apr 11, 2025)

    Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.

  • People wait to receive meals distributed by aid agencies in Gaza City. [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu]

    UN Chief calls Gaza a ‘killing field’ as agencies urge Global action on Israel’s blockade

    Originally published: Quds News Network on April 9, 2025 by QNN Team (more by Quds News Network)  | (Posted Apr 11, 2025)

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “aid has dried up, and the floodgates of horror have re-opened” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid and resumed its assault.

  • trump

    Trump imposes 104 percent tariff on China, as financial turmoil grows

    Originally published: Countercurrents on April 9, 2025 by Nick Beams (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2025)

    A week after U.S. President Trump launched his economic war against the world under the banner of so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” China will have a tariff of 104 percent imposed on its goods starting today.

  • Elon Musk attends a press conference with Trump at the Oval Office (Photo: The White House/X)

    What is DOGE doing to Social Security?

    Originally published: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on April 7, 2025 by Monique Morrissey (more by Economic Policy Institute (EPI))  | (Posted Apr 10, 2025)

    Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.

  • Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, speaking on the opening panel. Photo: Priscila Ramos

    Dilemmas of Humanity Conference discusses new framework for development in the Global South

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 8, 2025 by Zoe Alexandra (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2025)

    Dozens of economists, intellectuals, and movement leaders have converged in São Paulo for the IV International Dilemmas of Humanity conference.

  • Jennifer Berkshire

    Jennifer Berkshire: What’s Behind the Republican War Against Education: Part 1.

    Originally published: Diane Ravitch's blog on April 8, 2025 by DIane Ravitch (more by Diane Ravitch's blog) (Posted Apr 09, 2025)

    Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

  • 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.

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