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  • ecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with top Pentagon contractor, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, at the Pentagon, March 21. Musk, who appears to be in charge of the meeting, is wearing a blue space jacket he received on a 2022 visit to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Photo by Senior Airman Spencer Perkins was posed and sanitized by the Department of Defense.

    Pentagon downplays Elon Musk visit for secret China war plans

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 23, 2025 by Gary WIlson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 25, 2025)

    In a rare public denial from the highest levels of government, the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and President Donald Trump all swiftly responded to reports that tech billionaire Elon Musk was scheduled to receive a classified briefing on U.S. war plans for China. 

  • Protesters demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil at Foley Square, New York City, 10 March 2025 PHOTO: David Dee Delgado/ABC News (US)

    Letter from a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana

    Originally published: Red Flag on March 18, 2025 by Mahmoud Khalil (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Mar 25, 2025)

    Authorities arrested and are attempting to deport Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States and prominent figure in last year’s Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment.

  • Mark Carney on Twitter.

    Carney may be better than Poilievre, but serious issues remain

    Originally published: The Maple on March 24, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Mar 25, 2025)

    A consummate technocrat like Mark Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain.

  • TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

    TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

    Originally published: Friends of Socialist China on March 20, 2025 by Carlos Martinez (more by Friends of Socialist China) (Posted Mar 25, 2025)

    The following article by Carlos Martinez responds to a recent article in The Times complaining about TikTok users not being sufficiently anti-China. The only explanation the Times journalist can muster is that TikTok’s algorithms must be weighted to promote pro-CPC content.

  • Discovery of Immense Methane Leaks in Antarctica

    Discovery of immense methane leaks in Antarctica

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on March 22, 2025 by Robert Hunziker (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2025)

    A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative.

  • Newspaper clippings taken from the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born archives at the Southern California Library.

    The dark, McCarthyist history of deporting activists

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on March 21, 2025 by Michelle Chen (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2025)

    Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.

  • Stacie Pace talks about gender affirming care at her clinic, Spectrum: The Other Clinic, in Hattiesburg, Miss., Friday, February 3, 2023. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today

    Supreme Court could lift ban on dangerous, anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 21, 2025 by Aviva Levine (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2025)

    The case, known as ‘Chiles v. Salazar,’ argues that the ban on conversion therapy is a violation of free speech and freedom of religion.

  • Columbia caves to Trump’s demands on ‘antisemitism’ to secure funding

    Originally published: Palestine Chronicle on March 23, 2025 by Palestine Chronicle Staff (more by Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2025)

    Among the concessions agreed to by the university are a ban on face masks at protests and the hiring of 36 “special officers” with the power to remove or arrest students.

  • Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

    Trump illegally fires Democratic Commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission

    Originally published: Free Press on March 18, 2025 by Timothy Karr (more by Free Press) (Posted Mar 22, 2025)

    On Tuesday, President Trump illegally fired Democratic FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya.

  • In the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, a Black WWI veteran confronts a member of the white Illinois militia during the August 1919 “Red Summer” riots. During the six days of violence, 38 people died (23 Black and 15 white) and more than 500 were injured.

    Hegseth’s attacks on Black troops evoke long history of anti-racist struggle

    Originally published: The Empire Files on March 17, 2025 by Mike Prysner (more by The Empire Files) (Posted Mar 22, 2025)

    In quest to de-woke the military, Black troops may be booted in large numbers

  • After driving activists into the Odessa House of Trade Unions, Ukrainian neo-Nazis set fire to the building. Then they shot and beat to death people trying to escape the inferno.

    European Court rules Ukraine guilty in Odessa massacre

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 20, 2025 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 22, 2025)

    This ruling has received limited coverage in Western media outlets, as it confirms the Ukrainian regime’s support of the neo-Nazis through its inaction and refusal to take any measures against the killers.

  • Google 2025

    Google imports ex Israeli spies, the genocide resumes, cruel Britannia

    Originally published: ¡Do Not Panic! on March 19, 2025 by Nate Bear (more by ¡Do Not Panic!) (Posted Mar 22, 2025)

    Yesterday Google bought Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion.

  • Bruce Robbins said it was crucial the university stand up for its principles and refuse to capitulate to the Trump administration's undemocratic demands (Mohamed Hashem/MEE)

    Columbia professor says crackdown on pro-Palestine activists reeks of McCarthyism

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 19, 2025 by Mohamed Hashem (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 21, 2025)

    Bruce Robbins tells Real Talk he could be ‘thrown to the lions’ over steps he took during last year’s campus protests.

  • The financed journalism for the US; image AI

    When the servants cry: U.S.-funded anti-Cuban media are pleading for money

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on March 19, 2025 by Randy Alonso Falcón (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Mar 21, 2025)

    First it was the media funded by USAID, then those that received money from the NED howled; now Radio and TV “Martí” itself have fallen on the list of cuts.

  • Anschlussor or Schulterschluss?

    Canada: Anschluss, Schulterschluss or concrete internationalism?

    Originally published: The Bullet on March 19, 2025 by Stefan Kipfer (more by The Bullet) (Posted Mar 21, 2025)

    To begin, we must also ask: what is Trump 2.0? It is far more than a vengeful new U.S. administration.

  • 데이터 분석 거대 기업 Palantir가 본사를 Palo Alto에서 Denver로 이전

    The new age militarists: And their threat to our common future

    Originally published: TomDispatch on March 19, 2025 by William D Hartung (more by TomDispatch) (Posted Mar 20, 2025)

    Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.”

  • Trump Era Palestine - Soumaya Ghannoushi

    In Trump’s new order, anyone can become Palestinian

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 17, 2025 by Soumaya Ghannoushi (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2025)

    Trump’s attack on Chuck Schumer shows you don’t have to be Palestinian to be punished like one. You only have to step out of line.

  • US Boby Passport

    Trump wants to sell citizenship to rich people. Take if from other countries-it’s a bad idea

    Originally published: Foreign Policy in Focus on March 18, 2025 by Chris Mills Rodrigo (more by Foreign Policy in Focus) (Posted Mar 20, 2025)

    Citizenship by investment schemes drive up housing prices and do little to drive economic growth.

  • Arms Dealers

    How U.S. plans to bleed Europe dry while waging war on China

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 14, 2025 by Sharon Black (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2025)

    The theatrical events of the previous week between Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have been grist for all manner of bourgeois media lies designed to obfuscate events.

  • Caption: A sea of Lebanese flags carried by demonstrators in 2019. Liberation News

    Lebanon: A lesson in continuous and unconditional resistance

    Originally published: Liberation School on March 6, 2025 by Joyce Chediac (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2025)

    Like the people of Gaza after the January 17, 2025 ceasefire there, thousands of the 1.4 million Lebanese people displaced by Israeli bombings are streaming home in long lines to their villages, even though Israel reduced scores of towns to rubble.

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