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  • Coral bleaching off Heron Island in Queensland in 2016. Credit: The Ocean Agency/XL Catlin Seaview Survey/Richard Vevers

    ‘Ticking time bomb’ of ocean acidification has already crossed planetary boundary, threatening marine ecosystems: Study

    Originally published: EcoWatch on June 9, 2025 by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (more by EcoWatch)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2025)

    On the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, the findings of a new study have revealed that ocean acidification (OA)—which damages ecosystems like coral reefs—is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

  • Crystal Londonio, wife of detained Machinist Max Lodonio, speaks at the June 6 rally. Richard Howard, the president of her husband’s Machinists local is at right (in hat) with another local member. Photo: Zack Pattin

    ‘IAM Max’: Machinists rally for member detained by ICE

    Originally published: Labor Notes on June 9, 2025 by Zack Pattin (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2025)

    Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.

  • New Pan-African Path

    Forging a new Pan-African path: Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, and the Land of the Upright People

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 7, 2025 by Pan Africanism Today Secretariat (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    As coup attempts against the anti-imperialist government of Burkina Faso increase, Pan Africanism Today calls on progressive forces to demonstrate solidarity with the revolutions across the Sahel.

  • A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.

    Law and Disorder June 9, 2025

    Originally published: Law and Disorder Radio on June 9, 2025 by Law and Disorder Radio (more by Law and Disorder Radio)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    The world looks on in horror as Israel continues its genocidal assault on the Palestinian people.

  • Artificial intelligence, artificial support: Google buys new friends in Parliament

    Originally published: Morning Star Online by Solomon Hughes (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how six MPs enjoyed £400-£600 hospitality at Ditchley Park for Google’s ‘AI parliamentary scheme’ — supposedly to develop ‘effective scrutiny’ of artificial intelligence, but actually funded by the increasingly unsavoury tech giant itself.

  • Ayman Odeh

    Israel: Solidarity with Hadash leader Ayman Odeh

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on June 2, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    Two weeks ago, Ayman Odeh, MP and head of the Parliamentary Group of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), was violently removed from the podium of Knesset for denouncing the genocide in Gaza.

  • Grygorii Osovyi, President of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, arrested, Trade Union House seized.

    NATO-backed Ukraine escalates war on labor: Union leaders arrested, halls seized

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 7, 2025 by Lev Koufax (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2025)

    Just over 11 years ago, fascist mobs cheered in central Kiev as the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) roared with flame.

  • Fire engulfs a classroom at the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City following an Israeli strike, May 26, 2025.

    One day, everyone will have always been against this

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on June 7, 2025 by Derek Sayer (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jun 09, 2025)

    One of the most remarkable—not to say shameful—features of the last 20 months of carnage in Gaza has been the near-unanimity of support for Israel’s assault from Western governments and political parties of otherwise sharply opposed persuasions, regardless of how criminally Israel has conducted its “war.”

  • BBC

    The hidden story: Israeli ‘aid’ is part of genocide plan

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 6, 2025 by Belén Fernández (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jun 09, 2025)

    The victims had gathered in hopes of finding food for themselves and their families, following a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade of the territory. At least 31 people were killed; one Palestinian was also killed by Israeli fire the same day at another distribution site in central Gaza.

  • Tanzania President Samia Suhulu Hassan and Ugandan President Yoweri Musevni (Wikimedia Commons).

    The Condor Playbook: East Africa’s transnational crackdown on dissent

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on June 2, 2025 by Mohamed Amin Abdishukri (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Jun 07, 2025)

    Mohammed Amin Abdishukri offers a compelling account of recent coordinated transnational repression targeting cross-border activism by East African activists in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.

  • Titiwoot Weerawong

    Trump wants to keep America digitally divided

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 2, 2025 by David Rosen (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2025)

    By threatening to defund Digital Equity Act programs, Trump has declared war on a program that benefitted many of his own supporters.

  • Capitalism IS the Crisis May 25, 2013 March from Union Square to Washington Square New York, NY

    An enduring myth about capitalism

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on June 8, 2025 (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2025)

    THERE are of course many myths about capitalism spun by economists. One of these myths spun by David Ricardo has endured for over two centuries. Ricardo had originally been an enthusiastic supporter of the introduction of machinery, dismissive of the argument by workers’ organisations of his time that it gave rise to unemployment.

  • Poster by Emory Douglas for PrisonRadio.com available at: tinyurl.com/Emory-Mumia-stickersposter

    Mumia embraces the LGBTQ+ movement

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 3, 2025 by Lallan Schoenstein (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2025)

    Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader of people working for peace and justice.

  • View between colleagues with focus on African professional in early 30s looking across conference table at young associate, smiling and gesturing as she speaks. (Photo by Johnny Greig)

    Disdain for the poor: Job Corps shutdown sparks outrage

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on June 4, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Jun 06, 2025)

    Programs that create opportunity, equity, and stability are being dismantled to make way for budget cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy.

  • US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers his speech during 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore, Saturday, May 31, 2025. [AP Photo/Anupam Nath]

    U.S. demands Asian allies prepare for “imminent” war against China

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on June 3, 2025 by Peter Symonds (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Jun 06, 2025)

    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid down the law to military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific: “Dramatically escalate your military build-up and put yourselves on a war footing for conflict with China.”

  • Billionaires and far-right politicians have teamed up to wage a 'global war on labor rights,' according to the latest Global Rights Index from the International Trade Union Confederation. | Tony Dejak / AP

    Global war on labor: Report says workers’ rights in freefall as right-wing power grows

    Originally published: People's World on June 2, 2025 (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2025)

    Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.”

  • Minneapolis Police Officers, May 2020.

    A retreat from justice: Shielding cops from accountability

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 3, 2025 by Terrance Sullivan (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2025)

    Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.

  • Pizza

    Pizza goeth before a ball? Changes in Americans’ eating habits foretell a deep recession

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 4, 2025 by Jon Jeter (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2025)

    In its February 24th earnings call with the financial press, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner reported a 3.2 percent spike in carryout orders during the previous quarter, combined with a 1.4 percent decrease in deliveries.

  • Judicial election in Mexico. photo: Marco Ugarte / AP

    Mexico holds historic judicial elections amongst the howls of the corporate media

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on June 2, 2025 by Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Jun 05, 2025)

    Under Trump the U.S. is moving towards the centralization of power in the executive branch while its Southern neighbor, despite the flaws, is going in an opposite direction.

  • ESSAY: The Intellectual Origins of Imperialism and Zionism, Edward Said, 1977

    ESSAY: ‘The Intellectual Origins of Imperialism and Zionism’, Edward Said, 1977

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 28, 2025 by Black Agenda Report Editors (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2025)

    The zionist terrorist entity does not act alone. Over the 600 days of the genocide of the Palestinians, the United States has shipped 800 planeloads, carrying more than 90,000 tons of missiles, bombs, and military equipment, to the zionist entity.

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