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Stagflation returns, shining a spotlight on the Federal Reserve’s war on the working class
History exposes the Fed’s inflation fight for what it truly is: a decades-long class war waged against working people under the guise of monetary policy.
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Veterans force New York County Sheriff to take down Israeli flag
The flag of Israel represents the greatest human rights disaster in modern history, yet has flown proudly at the Broome County Correctional Facility by order of Sheriff Akshar.
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Carney is pushing Canadian liberalism to its breaking point
Bill C-5, Indigenous resistance, and the authoritarian turn at the heart of the settler state.
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UN experts urge ‘immediate dismantling’ of U.S.-and Israeli-backed GHF
Thirty-five independent UN human rights experts have called for the immediate dismantling of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.- and Israeli-backed organization that operates a controversial aid distribution system in Gaza, citing serious violations of international law.
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Trump says immigrants ‘do it naturally,’ revives racist labor myths
President Donald Trump has sparked new outrage after declaring that undocumented immigrants are “naturally” inclined to perform grueling farm labor—and that people in “inner cities” simply “don’t do that work.”
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Media blame NYC shooting not on Mayor Adams, but on candidate Mamdani
Whether you love him, hate him or never heard of him, Mamdani has not yet won the general election or been sworn in as mayor.
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How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today
Since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, U.S. imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the U.S. continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.
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The masks have finally come off
Interview with French decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja.
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China does not want to be hit by missiles produced with its parts
China’s long term planning has allowed it to acquire some serious advantages which it now uses to counter economic and other attacks on it.
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No, nuking cities did not save lives
It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives.
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Standing together against ICE and police brutality in Baltimore
The phrase “juntos somos más fuertes,” meaning “together we are stronger,” encapsulates the message of the Peoples Power Assembly’s car caravan held on July 12.
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Detroit Opera cancels season opener as Trump’s cuts impact cultural life across Michigan
The Detroit Opera has cancelled its season-opening production of The Girl of the Golden West (La fanciulla del West) by Giacomo Puccini.
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The emperor of the world
War is like Janus: it has more than one face.
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Assange joins historic anti-genocide march across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge
Julian Assange joined at least 90,000 and as many as 300,000 people who marched across Australia’s most famous bridge on Sunday to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Requiem for the Roberts Court
Hasty rulings on cases in the Supreme Court’s growing ‘shadow docket’ have fundamentally altered United States governance.
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Trump exploits jail contracts to skirt sanctuary policies, supercharge deportations, new report shows
A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative reveals how President Donald Trump’s administration is driving mass deportation by secretly using local jails—even in places with sanctuary policies—to detain immigrants.
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U.S. media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
Noticeably absent from U.S. news coverage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s waffling over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is any mention of the child sex predator’s apparent ties to Israeli intelligence.
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What else can they do?
This post provides context to today’s news (July 31st 2025) of Donald Trump’s ‘25% tariff plus penalty’ announcement on India. For a background of Indian ruling class’ response to trade pressure from the Trump administration, see What Explain’s India’s Response to Trump.
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Fox News shields EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as he promotes the most destructive climate rollback in EPA history
Fox News’ America Reports hosted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to repeal the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, which affirmed that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare and which has served as the legal foundation for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act.
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Where’s the outrage over labor leader Chris Smalls’ violent arrest by the IDF?
Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a single major media outlet has covered his violent detention by the IDF.