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  • Stagflation Returns

    Stagflation returns, shining a spotlight on the Federal Reserve’s war on the working class

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 6, 2025 by Jon Jeter (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2025)

    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.

  • Israel flag (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    Veterans force New York County Sheriff to take down Israeli flag

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 6, 2025 by Jack Gilroy (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2025)

    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.

  • The real battle over the Carney government’s Bill C-5 will unfold not in courtrooms but on railroad tracks, forestry roads, at ports, and in cities across the country. Photo by Thien V/Flickr.

    Carney is pushing Canadian liberalism to its breaking point

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 7, 2025 by Nick Gottlieb (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2025)

    Bill C-5, Indigenous resistance, and the authoritarian turn at the heart of the settler state.

  • Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)

    UN experts urge ‘immediate dismantling’ of U.S.-and Israeli-backed GHF

    Originally published: Quds News Network on August 6, 2025 by Editing Team (more by Quds News Network)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2025)

    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.

  • Farmer walking through maize field, low angle view with selective focus

    Trump says immigrants ‘do it naturally,’ revives racist labor myths

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on August 5, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Aug 07, 2025)

    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.”

  • Fox News coverage (7/30/25) of Zohran Mamdani and the Park Avenue shooting.

    Media blame NYC shooting not on Mayor Adams, but on candidate Mamdani

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 4, 2025 by Raina Lipsitz (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Aug 07, 2025)

    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.

  • AN ISRAELI AIR FORCE F-15 STRIKE EAGLE FLIES IN FORMATION WITH A U.S. AIR FORCE B-1B LANCER OVER ISRAEL AS PART OF A DETERRENCE FLIGHT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2021. (PHOTO: U.S. AIR FORCE/SENIOR AIRMAN JERREHT HARRIS)

    How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on August 6, 2025 by Rhonda Ramiro and Sarah Raymundo (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2025)

    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.

  • Houria Bouteldja

    The masks have finally come off

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on August 6, 2025 by Phil Butland (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2025)

    Interview with French decolonial activist Houria Bouteldja.

  • China unveiled its nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle as well as other latest military achievements during 70th National Day parade at Tiananmen Square. 2019.

    China does not want to be hit by missiles produced with its parts

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on August 4, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Aug 06, 2025)

    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.

  • Nuking Cities

    No, nuking cities did not save lives

    Originally published: World BEYOND War on August 2, 2025 by David Swanson (more by World BEYOND War)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2025)

    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.

  • Standing together against ICE and police brutality in Baltimore

    Standing together against ICE and police brutality in Baltimore

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 4, 2025 by Penny Pinotti (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2025)

    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. 

  • The Detroit Opera production of “The Central Park Five” by Anthony Davis [2025 Credit: Detroit Opera media]

    Detroit Opera cancels season opener as Trump’s cuts impact cultural life across Michigan

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on July 31, 2025 by Shannon Jones and Valery Tsekov (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Aug 05, 2025)

    The Detroit Opera has cancelled its season-opening production of The Girl of the Golden West (La fanciulla del West) by Giacomo Puccini.

  • John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress”, depicting Manifest Destiny

    The emperor of the world

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on August 1, 2025 by Frei Betto (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Aug 05, 2025)

    War is like Janus: it has more than one face.

  • Left to Right: Mary Kostakidis, Gabriel Shipton and Julian Assange on the Harbour Bridge. (Consortium News).

    Assange joins historic anti-genocide march across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge

    Originally published: Consortium News on August 3, 2025 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2025)

    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

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on July 31, 2025 by Bill Blum (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2025)

    Hasty rulings on cases in the Supreme Court’s growing ‘shadow docket’ have fundamentally altered United States governance.

  • Prison (Wikimedia Commons)

    Trump exploits jail contracts to skirt sanctuary policies, supercharge deportations, new report shows

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on July 30, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Aug 04, 2025)

    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.

  • Protesters in Washington, DC, a day before US President Donald Trump ordered his attorney general Pam Bondi to release transcripts of Jeffrey Epstein’s grand jury testimony. Sue Dorfman ZUMA Press Wire

    U.S. media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence

    Originally published: The Electronic Intifada on July 25, 2025 by Jim DeBrosse (more by The Electronic Intifada)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2025)

    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.

  • At the end of the war, India’s economy will be so weak that US corporations will buy even more Indian assets for pennies on the dollar.

    What else can they do?

    Originally published: RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India on July 31, 2025 by RUPE India Staff (more by RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India) (Posted Aug 04, 2025)

    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.

  • FOX

    Fox News shields EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as he promotes the most destructive climate rollback in EPA history

    Originally published: Media Matters for America on July 31, 2025 (more by Media Matters for America)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2025)

    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.

  • U.S. labor leader Christian Smalls sails on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship Handala on July 15, 2025. (Photo: Tan Safi/ Freedom Flotilla Coalition)

    Where’s the outrage over labor leader Chris Smalls’ violent arrest by the IDF?

    Originally published: Common Dreams on July 30, 2025 by Mike Elk (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2025)

    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.

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