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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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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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U.S. House adopts budget plan to spearhead social counterrevolution
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night took the first step in the Trump administration’s plans for devastating cuts in social spending, particularly on healthcare, adopting an initial budget plan by a 217-215 vote.
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CPAC 2025: A festival of fascist reaction
Trump administration officials and fascists from around the world are currently gathering at Maryland’s National Harbor for the annual U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
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Corporate media bosses bow to Trump demands
The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press.
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Federal judge finds Trump defied injunction to unfreeze funds
More than 40 substantial lawsuits have been filed over the last three weeks challenging President Donald Trump’s provocative executive orders on the budget, access to government data, the rights of federal employees, including inspectors general, campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, birthright citizenship and other burning issues.
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Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.
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The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism
Firefighters are being flown in from neighboring states like Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as local resources have been depleted. This shortage can be directly attributed to recent budget cuts signed by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, with the Los Angeles Fire Department seeing a $17.6 million reduction, while the police department received a $126 million increase.
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U.S. credit card defaults at highest level since Great Recession
Credit card defaults in the U.S. reached their highest level since the 2008 financial crash during the first nine months of 2024, according to figures compiled by BankRegData and cited in a recent Financial Times article.
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Homelessness in U.S. has doubled under Biden
The number of homeless people living in shelters or on the streets topped 770,000 this year, according to the annual report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development released Friday, a rise of 18 percent over 2023.
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The dictatorial threat of Trump’s recess appointment plan
Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.
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Trump proclaims Argentina’s fascist President Milei a model for incoming US administration
In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet commander visits Sri Lanka to cement ties with new president
Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its electoral front, the National People’s Power (NPP).
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UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting rolls out Labour’s first attacks on NHS
Britain’s Labour government has begun rolling out its National Health Service (NHS) privatisation programme, and clampdown on health workers’ pay.
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Plan to use long-range NATO missiles against Russia threatens uncontrolled escalation of global war
After high-ranking NATO officials publicly called for Ukraine to use NATO weapons to attack deep inside Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin formally presented a proposed update to Russia’s nuclear policy that would expand the conditions under which Moscow would use nuclear weapons.
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China’s economic ascendancy in Africa threatens U.S. imperialism
China’s economic ascendency and the ensuing rivalry between Beijing and Washington, representing the world’s two largest economies, are being played out across the resource-rich African continent.
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U.S., UK to announce expansion of NATO weapons strikes inside Russia
The United States and United Kingdom will imminently announce a major expansion of Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia using NATO weapons, the Guardian and Politico reported on Wednesday.
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The banning of X/Twitter in Brazil and the authoritarian drive of the capitalist state
The decision was the product of an escalating dispute between the STF and X’s fascistic CEO, Elon Musk.
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Macron refuses to name New Popular Front to French government
After President Emmanuel Macron finished a round of talks with leaders of France’s parliamentary parties on Monday, he refused to select a prime minister to try to assemble a majority in parliament.
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Colleges reopen amid nation-wide escalation of attack on free speech
University and college students are returning to campus amidst a fall offensive launched against free speech. The ruling class is determined to put students “in their place” after they have bravely opposed the Gaza genocide, despite savage repression, punishments by administrators, and the revoking of job offers to oppose U.S. support for the genocide in […]