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  • Still from I'm Still Here. (Credit: Alile Onawale / Sony Pictures Classics)

    ‘I’m Still Here’ is a story for now

    Originally published: Tribune on March 6, 2025 by Charlie Prado (more by Tribune)  | (Posted Mar 08, 2025)

    The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

  • May Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2015 PHOTO: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Anadolu Agency

    Capitalism can’t end women’s oppression: We need a revolution

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 4, 2025 by Louise O'Shea (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2025)

    Fifty years ago, the UN designated 1975 as the International Year of Women.

  • James Baldwin at a lecture in Amsterdam, December 1984.

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    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on March 5, 2025 by JP O’Malley (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2025)

    The Irish author talks about his new book on James Baldwin, his influences, and his enduring legacy.

  • Trump 2.0 (Photo: Globetrotter Media)

    Trump 2.0: The view from China

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 4, 2025 by Wang Wen (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2025)

    While Donald Trump has sent much of the world in a panic, his second term may strengthen China’s rise, just as his first did.

  • CLR James circa 1946, Photography by Carl Van Vechten, (Credit: Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Collection, Robert Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center)

    Amazing facts about CLR James’ African Studies

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on February 26, 2025 by Matthew Quest (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Mar 06, 2025)

    Matthew Quest questions why C.L.R. James is not widely recognized as a founder of African Studies.

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of a portrait of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

    Israel preparing ‘Hell Plan’ for Gaza that would cut electricity and water

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on March 3, 2025 by Antiwar.com (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2025)

    Israel is also preparing for the full-scale resumption of its genocidal war within 10 days if Hamas doesn’t accept its terms.

  • 400,000 soldiers for reserve duty

    Israeli cabinet allows military to call up 400,000 reservists for possible occupation duty

    Originally published: Radio Havana Cuba, edited on March 2, 2025 by Ed Newman (more by Radio Havana Cuba, edited)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2025)

    In phase one, which ended on Saturday, a total of 33 Israeli captives, including eight bodies, were released in exchange for 1,737 Palestinian abductees held in the regime’s jails.

  • Marching Toward Greater Inequality

    Why class matters

    Originally published: ZZ's Blog on March 3, 2025 by Greg Godels (more by ZZ's Blog) (Posted Mar 05, 2025)

    Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.

  • Bezos

    To cozy up to Trump, Bezos banishes dissent from WaPo

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 28, 2025 by Pete Tucker (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 04, 2025)

    “When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”

  • Between the Marshall Islands and Fukushima [by Prof. Robert Jacobs] | DiaNuke.org

    Remembering nuclear victims 71 years after the Castle Bravo test

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on March 1, 2025 by Gerry Condon and Helen Jaccard (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Mar 04, 2025)

    Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.

  • Trump’s tariffs

    The empire rebrands

    Originally published: Naked Capitalism on March 2, 2025 by Conor Gallagher (more by Naked Capitalism) (Posted Mar 04, 2025)

    The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.

  • Trump arms sales

    Trump approves $3 billion in arms sales to Israel without U.S. Congressional approval

    Originally published: Radio Havana Cuba, edited on March 1, 2025 by Ed Newman (more by Radio Havana Cuba, edited)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2025)

    In a series of notifications sent to Congress on Friday, the State Department has reported it has approved the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion to Israel.

  • Trump Gaza

    The empire at its most honest

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on February 26, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2025)

    President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.

  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans to find agreement on a spending bill, at the Capitol in Washington. [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite]

    U.S. House adopts budget plan to spearhead social counterrevolution

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on February 27, 2025 by Patrick Martin (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Feb 28, 2025)

    The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night took the first step in the Trump administration’s plans for devastating cuts in social spending, particularly on healthcare, adopting an initial budget plan by a 217-215 vote.

  • Billy Graham

    “Give cheerfully, give abundantly”

    Originally published: The Activist History Review on May 2018 by Sam R. Schmitt (more by The Activist History Review) (Posted Feb 28, 2025)

    As we continue in the struggle for economic justice, it is important to examine how white Christian evangelism shapes our efforts to alleviate poverty. Casting poverty as a form of moral failing encourages people to disengage from the social, cultural, and structural causes of poverty and ignores the role that white Americans play in the global proliferation of poverty conditions worldwide.

  • Pretoria (Photo: Shuttershock / FPIF)

    Make apartheid great again?

    Originally published: Foreign Policy in Focus on February 21, 2025 by Zeb Larson and William Minter (more by Foreign Policy in Focus) (Posted Feb 28, 2025)

    Trump’s actions signal need to understand global history of white supremacy.

  • Minister Angel Prado. Photo: Primicias Venezuela.

    Minister Prado: Venezuela’s Popular Government System seeks to consolidate the structure of the commune

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on February 25, 2025 by Ángel Prado (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2025)

    Venezuela’s Minister for Communes and Social Movements Ángel Prado affirmed this Tuesday that the aim of the Popular and Communal Government System is to consolidate the entire structure of the commune. “We seek to consolidate, from the territory, the entire structure of the commune, and that involves achieving a centrality in the information by not […]

  • Medicare for all (Photo: citizentruth)

    The House Republicans’ plan to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich would slash incomes for the bottom 40%

    Originally published: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on February 19, 2025 by Josh Bivens (more by Economic Policy Institute (EPI))  | (Posted Feb 27, 2025)

    The clearest legislative priority of the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress is to keep taxes low for the richest households and corporations.

  • Yekatit 12

    The crimes and victims of Italian colonialism: A story that must be told, beginning with Yekatit 12 የካቲት ፲፪

    Originally published: Pressenza on February 26, 2025 by Anna Lodeserto (more by Pressenza) (Posted Feb 27, 2025)

    Today’s countries such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France have, to varying degrees, confronted their imperial legacies, however incomplete or contested these reckonings may be.

  • Fox News

    Standing up to Fox News

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on February 24, 2025 by Glenn Daigon (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 26, 2025)

    Despite shifting political climate, media reformers press forward with Fox News TV license challenge.

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