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The U.S./EU/NATO’s Regime change playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
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Attorneys criticize arrest of Milwaukee Judge Dugan as ‘bad for justice’
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.
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Russia rejects Trump’s freeze of the war in Ukraine
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.
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‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Tariff negotiations and the farmers
ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.
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They are making Venezuela’s economy scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)
U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?
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Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar
The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.
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U.S. backs Israel’s ban on UNRWA Gaza aid operations at ICJ
Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.
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Trump is the symptom, U.S. imperialism is the disease
U.S. Peace Council Statement
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Tough on Institutions, not Individuals: Resisting Militarism in Engineering Schools
The scale and pace of the genocide in Gaza is accelerated by the direct and indirect contributions of American universities.
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Marx’s ontology: A clarification
Marx’s theory of being is fundamental to his wider approach to history and politics, explains John Rees.
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New report shows working-class Americans live 7 years fewer than rich
“The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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How the creation of the ‘New Antisemitism’ was used to shield Israel and attack the Left
Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.
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The Great Gatsby 100 years later
The relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work today on its centennial.
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The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today: The New Challenge from the Far-Right
In an unmistakable style in the form of a provocative lecture in Lisbon in 2024, at the age of 84 Father Martins Júnior asked: “50 years later, what irony! There are 50 fascists, one for each year, in Parliament. How is this possible?”
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What the doxxing of student activists means for the First Amendment
Is ICE following the lead of rightwing websites to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and activism?
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Vietnam: A victory never to be forgotten
It’s a historic anniversary that the U.S. ruling class and its allies around the world wish we would forget.
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Inside the pro-Israel Dominican ultra-right that’s pushing for ethnic cleansing against Haitian immigrants
On March 30, a lynch mob led by neo-Nazi paramilitaries flew the Israel flag as it demanded Haitian workers be expelled from the Dominican Republic. The episode reveals the disturbing connections between the Dominican right-wing and Israel.
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As Israel openly declares starvation as a weapon, media still hesitate to blame it for famine
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
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Two hundred years ago, France strangled the Haitian Revolution with an inhumane debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025)
On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola.