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  • New York State Police raided Columbia University, arresting dozens of demonstrators. (Photo: video grab)

    Police storm Columbia University library, arrest pro-Palestinian student protesters

    Originally published: The Palestine Chronicle on May 8, 2025 by Palestine Chronicle Staff (more by The Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    Footage showed a heavy police presence as students clashed with security and barricaded themselves inside the library.

  • Cpt. Ibrahim Traoré

    The rising star of Cpt. Ibrahim Traore – Burkina Faso’s spirit of Sankara

    Originally published: Nkrumah's Africa on April 12, 2025 by Nicolas Jones (more by Nkrumah's Africa) (Posted May 09, 2025)

    The new, bold and vibrant leader of Burkina Faso, has left his continental colleagues in the dust, when representing Pan-African leadership…

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    Absurd (scary) CO2 emissions

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on May 4, 2025 by Robert Hunziker (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted May 07, 2025)

    In a major blow to the Paris ’15 climate agreement, last year witnessed one more nail in the coffin of the celebrated agreement to slow down CO2emissions by 2030, as CO2, for the first time in modern history, enters the scientifically established danger zone.

  • US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IN KYIV, UKRAINE ON FEBRUARY 20, 2023. (PHOTO: PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VIA APA IMAGES)

    Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 2, 2025 by Mitchell Plitnick (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 07, 2025)

    Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.

  • National Museum of African American History and Culture Building in Washington DC, USA. A popular visitors and tourists destination in the capital city

    Sounding the alarm

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 5, 2025 by April Ryan (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 07, 2025)

    In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw University; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said, “I will probably get fired at some point,” Bunch said. “But I think the goal would be to, sort of, fight the fight as long as you can.”

  • Nayib Bukele

    The long history of illegality in U.S. policy toward Latin America

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 5, 2025 by Greg Gardin (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted May 07, 2025)

    It seems as if the entire disgraceful history of U.S. illegality in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has sparked outrage in the United States among human rights defenders and opponents of the Trump administration.

  • P.S. Jalaja (India), We Surely Can Change the World, 2021.

    What explains India’s response to Trump?

    Originally published: RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India on May 4, 2025 by rupeindia (more by RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India) (Posted May 07, 2025)

    To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.

  • MLK.Jr

    Martin Luther King on capitalism in his own words

    Originally published: MLK Global on November 23, 2017 (more by MLK Global)  | (Posted May 06, 2025)

    Throughout his life, Martin Luther King Jr spoke often and with vision about the nature of capitalism.

  • Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, California. [AP Photo/Noah Berger]

    Trump issues executive order requiring English proficiency for truckers, escalating attacks on immigrant workers

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on May 5, 2025 by Jane Wise (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted May 06, 2025)

    In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.

  • KFF Health News

    Do Mob wars help crime victims?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 2, 2025 by John Canham-Clyne (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted May 06, 2025)

    Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles.

  • A SCREENSHOT OF SCOTT PELLEY FROM THE RECENT 60 MINUTES PROGRAM DURING WHICH HE REBUKED CBS’ PARENT COMPANY ON AIR, OVER REPORTED “INTERFERENCE” THAT LED LONGTIME EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BILL OWENS TO RESIGN.

    There’s an under-reported Israel angle to the corporate effort to muzzle ’60 Minutes’

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 3, 2025 by James North (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 05, 2025)

    Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.

  • US Air Force PHOTO: Air Force Senior Airman Duncan C. Bevan/Centre for Strategic & International Studies

    World military spending explodes

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 1, 2025 by Danica Rachel (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted May 05, 2025)

    Every dollar added to the world’s military budgets takes us closer to a potentially apocalyptic scenario of world war.

  • Former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, who resigned after losing his seat on Monday. The NDP also lost official party status after failing to win the required 12 seats. Photo courtesy Jagmeet Singh/Facebook.

    This election was a disaster for the NDP and unions

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 30, 2025 by Sid Ryan (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted May 05, 2025)

    The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.

  • The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is in a difficult political situation, but it continues to carry on the class struggle against the capitalists who looted the Soviet people while also navigating the complexities of the war in Ukraine. | Putin photo via AP; Other photos: C.J. Atkins / People's World; Montage design: PW

    Amidst capitalist crisis and war, Russian Communists struggle against Putin and the oligarchs

    Originally published: People's World on May 2, 2025 by C.J. Atkins (more by People's World)  | (Posted May 05, 2025)

    Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]

  • The Milwaukee County Courthouse (Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner)

    Attorneys criticize arrest of Milwaukee Judge Dugan as ‘bad for justice’

    Originally published: Wisconsin Examiner on April 29, 2025 by Henry Redman (more by Wisconsin Examiner) (Posted May 03, 2025)

    After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.

  • Tump and Putin

    Russia rejects Trump’s freeze of the war in Ukraine

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on April 28, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted May 03, 2025)

    The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.

  • Josh Simmons, Senior Bureau Officer, Office of Legal Counsellor, United States Department of State makes statements as he attends the third day of the advisory opinion hearings on the illegality of Israel’s restrictions on the United Nations and its organisations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on April 30, 2025. [Mouneb Taim – Anadolu Agency]

    U.S. backs Israel’s ban on UNRWA Gaza aid operations at ICJ

    Originally published: Middle East Monitor on April 30, 2025 (more by Middle East Monitor)  | (Posted May 02, 2025)

    Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.

  • Of Presidential Crooks, Bigots, and Incompetents: Trump Combines All Three

    Trump is the symptom, U.S. imperialism is the disease

    Originally published: U.S. Peace Council on April 29, 2025 by U.S. Peace Council (more by U.S. Peace Council) (Posted May 02, 2025)

    U.S. Peace Council Statement

  • Imagined sourced from author

    Tough on Institutions, not Individuals: Resisting Militarism in Engineering Schools

    Originally published: Science for the People on Vol 26, No 3: Palestine by Anonymous (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted May 01, 2025)

    The scale and pace of the genocide in Gaza is accelerated by the direct and indirect contributions of American universities.

  • Karl Marx

    Marx’s ontology: A clarification

    Originally published: Counterfire on April 24, 2025 by John Rees (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    Marx’s theory of being is fundamental to his wider approach to history and politics, explains John Rees.

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