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President Trump’s cabinet of polluters, frackers and climate crisis deniers rushes to gut protections
In his address to Congress this week, President Trump boasted about ending “environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable.”
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Israel resumes its war on Gaza, killing over 400 people in one night
After two weeks of systematic Israeli violations of the tenuous ceasefire agreement, Israel has officially resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel’s killing of over 400 people, Hamas remains committed to completing the ceasefire.
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U.S. massacres dozens of civilians in airstrikes on Yemen
Over the past year, the United States and Israel have waged a major regional war, coordinated with the Gaza genocide, targeting Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran itself.
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Nuestra América and the Black Radical Peace Tradition
The Black Radical Tradition is the rich legacy passed down by revolutionaries. It is an important tool today as we struggle to turn the Americas into a Zone of Peace.
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16th century revolutionary’s words resonate today: Review of new book on Thomas Muntzer
Andrew Drummond’s marvellous new book, The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Muntzer: The life and times of an early German Revolutionary, published by Verso, is “the definitive” biography of the sixteenth century revolutionary, in the words of one Marxist historian.
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Hands off Rep. Al Green! It’s fascist Trump who’s ‘out of order’
Texas Rep. Al Green was absolutely justified for challenging Donald Trump during the wannabe dictator’s March 4 speech to a joint session of Congress.
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Ukraine timeline tells the tale
The way to prevent the Ukraine war from being understood is to suppress its history.
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” U.S. and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
The U.S. and Israeli governments have opened up discussions with officials from Sudan, Somalia and the internationally unrecognized breakaway Somaliland over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza and their forcible relocation to those countries.
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Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’
When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
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UN investigation accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza through targeted destruction of health facilities
A United Nations investigation released on Thursday has concluded that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip by systematically targeting and destroying reproductive health care facilities.
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Seven silent measures against Cuba
Marco Rubio—Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him—is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize.
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The fog of class war
A class consciousness among the working masses, one that takes the issue of race seriously, is critical at this moment. Still, the democrats are working to disrupt this effort to organize against the capitalist elite.
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The scramble for Greenland
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.
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Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
The Trump administration told U.S. government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report—the latest move to withdraw the U.S. from global climate action and research.
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U.S. media’s sorry history of abetting immigration panics
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.
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More than 7000 massacred in Syria
7,000 Christians and Alawites have been “slaughtered” in Syria according to Greek Member of the European Parliament, Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security & Defense, who visited Damascus on 8-9 March.
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At my Texas prison, solitary confinement all but guarantees sexual exploitation by guards
Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”
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Momentum builds behind calls for release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention
Federal judge orders that the recent Columbia graduate not be deported while the court considered a challenge brought by Khalil’s lawyers.
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Universalism the panacea for Palestine
In total contrast to the ideals of universalism, the Trump-Vance swagger to defend and increase only U.S. interests is apparent in their MAGA doctrine and was revealed in their gangsterish Oval Office thuggery towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.