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The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order
Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR.
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Trump threatens to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and visas for international students
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.
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American concentration camps
Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.
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Trump orders purge of Black History from Smithsonian, targets African American Museum
The executive order is chillingly titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It declares that the Smithsonian, once a symbol of “American excellence,” has become tainted by narratives that portray “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
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How the Trump administration is using civil rights complaints over ‘antisemitism’ to end DEI and quash dissent on Palestine
The Trump administration’s recent investigation of 60 schools for “antisemitic discrimination” appeared to target campus protests. But, a closer look shows it was driven by pro-Israel groups’ use of civil rights law to push a broad right-wing agenda.
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Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty
A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty.
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Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.
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No, Marco Rubio, Cuban doctors are not victims of ‘forced labor’
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.
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Absolute car crash
As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.
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Oligarchy and the subversion of democracy–warnings from South Africa
The world has an oligarchy problem.
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The camouflaged U.S. invasion of Panama
Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country.
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Judge blocks deportation of Columbia protest organizer Mahdawi
A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.
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Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador
President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.
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Smashing walls, building firewalls, and breaking the digital siege
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.
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Hegel reading Heraclitus
Antonis Chaliakopoulos offers an intro to Heraclitus, and to Hegel, via each other.
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Comment | The 1930s all over again? Trump and ‘Entartete Kunst’ revisited
There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.
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America’s national parks are among the victims of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to drown our government in a bathtub
Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world… but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.
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‘Death Sentence’ – Israel bombs Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, again
The only functioning hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service after an Israeli airstrike destroyed key medical departments.
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Pentagon chief nominee wants to expand NATO’s nuclear sharing policy
Although the new administration is looking to refocus on the Asia-Pacific, the policy of expanded nuclear sharing makes sense, as it could ameliorate NATO’s growing conventional inferiority against the battle-hardened Russian military. For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the […]
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Trump’s slump
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.