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  • Trump

    Billions ripped from minority-owned firms under Trump

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on June 2, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Jun 04, 2025)

    The Trump administration is dismantling the very programs created to correct generations of systemic racism and economic exclusion—programs that helped level the playing field for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and women entrepreneurs.

  • Palestinians after an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip [Photo by UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]

    Israeli academics issue open letter condemning Gaza genocide

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on June 1, 2025 by Andre Damon and David North (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Jun 04, 2025)

    The letter—addressed to the Association of University Heads in Israel, the Board of Academic Public Colleges, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Academics for Israeli Democracy—is a reaction to the launching of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.

  • Closing of the electoral campaign march, May, 22, 2025 in Caracas-Venezuela.

    Immigration as a political weapon

    Originally published: Alliance for Global Justice on May 24, 2025 by William Camacaro (more by Alliance for Global Justice)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Hundreds of migrants have been illegally deported by the U.S. to these infamous prisons, currently there are approximately 110,000 prisoners across the country; approximately 85,000 of these prisoners have been arrested since the start of the state of exception, an emergency measure that has been renewed 36 times by the National Assembly since its promulgation in March 2022.

  • A WIDELY CIRCULATED IMAGE OF STARVING PALESTINIANS IN RAFAH AT AN AID DISTRIBUTION SITE RUN BY THE U.S.-BACKED GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION, MAY 27, 2025. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)

    The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 30, 2025 by Abdaljawad Omar (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.

  • The Phoenician Scheme

    Wes Anderson takes on Western Imperialism: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Review

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 1, 2025 by Lucy Nichols (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.

  • US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP/PTI

    Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’

    Originally published: The Wire on May 30, 2025 by E.D. Mathew (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.

  • Allies take place outside Glencore offices ahead of Annual General Meeting in Switzerland. Photo: screenshot

    Colonial mining fuels Israeli genocide: global protests target Glencore

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 29, 2025 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.

  • America is a scam

    America is a scam

    Originally published: Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow on May 28, 2025 by Cory Doctorow (more by Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow) (Posted May 31, 2025)

    Donald Trump is many things: a racist, an authoritarian, a rapist… but what he is, and has always been, above all and from the very start, is a scammer.

  • Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides at a recent news conference. Credit: Government of Alberta

    Alberta gov’t seeks to ban books to distract from scandals

    Originally published: rabble.ca on May 28, 2025 by David J. Climenhaga (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted May 31, 2025)

    Facing an ongoing corruption scandal and rising measles cases, clearly the Alberta government is desperate for a distraction.

  • Medicare for All

    Getting to Medicare for All

    Originally published: CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research) on May 18, 2025 by Dean Baker (more by CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research))  | (Posted May 31, 2025)

    There are a million ways to slice and dice both a universal Medicare plan and also the transition, which will pose real problems. However, it is important any plan be comprehensive. That doesn’t mean it has to cover the plastic surgery needed to give people the Mar-a-Lago look, but it does need to cover areas like dental, vision, and hearing, which are excluded from traditional Medicare.

  • Blockade on Cuba

    The U.S. blockade on Cuba

    Originally published: Spring Magazine on May 28, 2025 by Adam Kendal (more by Spring Magazine)  | (Posted May 31, 2025)

    As workers and socialists, Cuba’s struggle is our struggle.

  • The Trump regime has already cut $660 million nationwide for school lunch programs. Twelve million students are expected to lose food aid with new restrictions on schools accessing funds.

    Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 25, 2025 by Louisiana Workers Council (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 30, 2025)

    Following is a fact sheet about how Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill cuts essential services and benefits for workers to give to the wealthy.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem, on 21 May 2025 (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

    Outrage as Netanyahu says no mass starvation in Gaza, suggests Palestinians are overweight

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on May 28, 2025 by Ghalia Mohamed (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted May 30, 2025)

    Prime minister says Israel has photographs of thousands of unclothed prisoners, an ‘indication’ of sufficient food, as experts warn of looming famine.

  • GHF food distribution site in Rafah. Photo: Quds News Network

    U.S. and Israel hijack aid, massacre starving Palestinians

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 28, 2025 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 30, 2025)

    The Israeli and U.S. aid distribution maneuver sparked chaos among desperate, starving Palestinians and Israeli forces responded by killing at least five.

  • Citizens protest against U.S. attempts to control the Panama Canal, 2025. X/ @AlertaMundoNews

    Donald Trump and Panama: A return to 1903?

    Originally published: teleSUR English on April 13, 2025 by Olmedo Beluche (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted May 29, 2025)

    A mobilization is beginning to defend national sovereignty, trampled by Yankee imperialism and local traitors.

  • March

    The Gaza solidarity movement outlives the Government’s support for Israel

    Originally published: Stop the War Coalition (StWC) on May 21, 2025 by David Jamieson (more by Stop the War Coalition (StWC))  | (Posted May 29, 2025)

    The London marches, several of which have broken the half a million mark, are the flagship of the whole movement, and are not stopping yet explains David Jamieson.

  • A march through downtown Minneapolis calling for justice for George Floyd on April 19, 2021, during jury deliberations in the Derek Chauvin trial. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

    Five years after the murder of George Floyd: The fight for Black liberation continues

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 25, 2025 by Party for Socialism and Liberation — Twin Cities (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 29, 2025)

    It has been five years since police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

  • Harvard

    After Trump’s Harvard ban, China invites students with offers

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on May 26, 2025 by News Site (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted May 29, 2025)

    Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.

  • Extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and 26 others.

    PUCL condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao and 26 others in Chhattisgarh

    Originally published: People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) on May 27, 2025 by People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) Staff (more by People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL))  | (Posted May 29, 2025)

    The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and 26 others, many of whom were Adivasi residents, in an alleged encounter carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency operations in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh.

  • SAFTU

    SAFTU condemns imperialist blackmail disguised as diplomacy in Ramaphosa’s secret deal with Trump

    Originally published: South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on May 23, 2025 by SAFTU Staff (more by South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU))  | (Posted May 28, 2025)

    The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington.

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