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  • Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C (Wikimedia Commons/ Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America)

    In Trump’s new Confederacy, slavery wasn’t sin

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on October 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Oct 28, 2025)

    In Donald Trump’s America, they are no longer whispering their love for slavery; they are preaching it from the pulpit.

  • Kerala Model of Development

    Yet another shining example of Kerala model of development

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on October 26, 2025 by Sam (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Oct 28, 2025)

    On November 1, 2025, Kerala would have achieved a milestone that no other state in the country has achieved, by implementing a comprehensive programme that no other government in India ever had the courage or vision to conceptualise.

  • Red and black UASC cargo ship on body of water.

    Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains—it’s powering them

    Originally published: LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science) on September 19, 2025 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science))  | (Posted Oct 28, 2025)

    Global supply chains (GSCs)—which account for around 70 percent of international trade—are often referred to as the backbone of the world economy.

  • Trump

    U.S. deploys aircraft carrier and threatens invasion of Venezuela, while expanding “drug” war to Colombia

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press by Devin B. Martinez (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2025)

    As U.S. warships inch towards Colombia and Venezuela, Petro denounces Trump’s airstrikes in the Caribbean as “extrajudicial executions”

  • Algebra Of Exploitation

    The Algebra Of Exploitation: How the Nobel Prize mathematically sanitized creative destruction – OpEd

    Originally published: Eurasia Review on October 17, 2025 by Debashis Chakrabarti (more by Eurasia Review)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2025)

    The 2025 laureates didn’t just study creative destruction; they completed a century-long project to drain Marx’s explosive critique of its revolutionary content, repackaging systemic violence as a mathematical inevitability.

  • Graphic by Christopher Cruz

    Tech giants are trying to cover up the environmental impacts of their data centers

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on October 22, 2025 by Julian Cooper (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2025)

    Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

  • Layoffs in the steel and aluminum sectors.

    Beyond the ‘elbows up’ response to the Tariff War: Debating a National Industrial Policy

    Originally published: The Bullet on October 24, 2025 by Robert Chernomas and Fred Wilson (more by The Bullet) (Posted Oct 27, 2025)

    Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended.

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    Hitting freshwater rock bottom

    Originally published: Steady State Herald on October 23, 2025 by Alix Underwood and Marwa Ebrahem (more by Steady State Herald) (Posted Oct 25, 2025)

    It’s time to splash our faces with cold water, ask how and at what cost that water made it to our taps, and recognize that our economy can’t keep growing exponentially.

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    How legacy media fails Trans people

    Originally published: LA Progressive on October 21, 2025 by Shealeigh Voitl (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2025)

    Politically manufactured panic over “transgender extremism” endangers trans people, and the corporate media is unfortunately playing along.

  • ARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE: Arthur (Anthony Boyle) and Lady Olivia Hedges (Danielle Galligan) in House of Guinness [Pic: IMDb]

    Wealth porn

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 13, 2025 by Dennis Broe (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    DENNIS BROE situates the new Netflix series House of Guinness within a genre that is dazzled by the perverse spectacle of capitalist domination.

  • Stephen Miller

    Stephen Miller and the making of the Fascist subject

    Originally published: LA Progressive on October 20, 2025 (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    Miller’s presence and voice reveal more than the death of conscience; they expose the swindle of a future already in motion.

  • WM

    William Morris Meets Alibaba: Mass Manufacturing, Marxism and the (Lost) Beauty of Nature

    Originally published: Diggit Magazine on September 29, 2025 by Inge Beekmans (more by Diggit Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    What would William Morris think if he would see his work being printed on cheap smartphone cases? His response might not be as straight forward as you think. Though Morris preferred craftsmanship over mass production, and fiercely opposed the destruction of nature, he also believed ‘beautiful’ things should be accessible to everyone. And isn’t ‘beauty’ always in the eye of the beholder? This article uses Morris’ ideas to critically examine his work’s contemporary popularity on platforms like Alibaba.

  • In Nicaragua, where children often need to be treated for parasite infections, a treatment with albendazole costs around 10¢. In the US, parasitic infections are increasing it costs $380.

    Nicaragua’s Public Health System: Priorities Versus U.S. Pharmaceuticals’ Extortion

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on October 19, 2025 by Gloria Guillo (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    In The Graduate (1967), a family friend corners young Benjamin Braddock with one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.”

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    How a Private Company Won the War Waged on It by the Mightiest State: Huawei’s Secret Comeback Revealed

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 22, 2025 by Felix Abt (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors.

  • China’s progress proves socialism is the only viable framework for saving the planet - CM

    China’s progress proves socialism is the only viable framework for saving the planet

    Originally published: Friends of Socialist China on October 14, 2025 by Carlos Martinez (more by Friends of Socialist China) (Posted Oct 23, 2025)

    Mao Zedong said in 1956 that, by the beginning of the 21st century, China would have become “a powerful socialist industrial country” and that “she ought to have made a greater contribution to humanity.”

  • Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel

    “The Philosopher of the Master Class” — Why Losurdo’s Nietzsche Matters Now

    Originally published: Weaponized Information on October 10, 2025 by Prince Kapone (more by Weaponized Information) (Posted Oct 23, 2025)

    A review of Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo — a ruthless excavation of Europe’s most reactionary philosopher. Losurdo drags Nietzsche out of myth and into history, exposing his war on equality as the moral software of empire. Our review reads Losurdo as a weapon: a guide for revolutionaries to unmask how Nietzsche’s aristocratic creed still powers the ideologies of capital, empire, and Silicon Valley.

  • Palestinians stand near a burning car reportedly set alight by Israeli settlers attempting to disrupt them harvesting olives near the occupied West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, on 19 October 2025 (Hazen Badar/AFP)

    Viral video of West Bank settler attack sparks outrage and accusations of U.S. hypocrisy

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on October 21, 2025 by Maysa Mustafa (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2025)

    Outcry grows as footage filmed by American journalist Jasper Nathaniel goes viral, revealing messages between him and U.S. embassy in Israel.

  • Donald Trump

    Trump’s war against ‘Left-leaning’ groups extends further

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on October 16, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Oct 23, 2025)

    The scary thing is that there is, so far, little or any opposition to these plans and only few warnings about their consequences.

  • evergreens

    Collectively bargaining the future of local journalism

    Originally published: The STAND on October 21, 2025 by The STAND Staff (more by The STAND) (Posted Oct 23, 2025)

    Contract negotiations at five Pacific Northwest newspapers are putting a spotlight on AI, clickbait, and the pressures on local journalists.

  • Gaza receives total of 135 Palestinian bodies held in Israeli custody | Middle East Eye

    Outcry after Israel returns Palestinian bodies in ‘horrific condition’ to Gaza

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on October 17, 2025 by Mera Aladam (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2025)

    Forensic examination of 120 Palestinian bodies show ‘clear evidence’ of torture and possible organ theft.

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    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

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  • Nguyễn Phan Chánh (Vietnam), Market Scene, 1937.
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