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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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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.
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Cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aren’t about ‘efficiency,’ they are an assault on workers’ protections
On April 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to approximately 1,500 of its workers—these mass layoffs represent a nearly 90% cut to the agency.
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Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world’s most powerful firms.
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The attentional Oligarchy
Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.
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The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico
For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.
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Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’
A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
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U.S. and Israel gangsterism has created a hobbesian International state of nature
Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism.
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The Department of Education is collecting delinquent Student Loan Debt
The Department of Education will withhold money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits, garnish federal employee wages, and withhold federal pensions from people who have defaulted on their student loan debt.
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FBI and police raid homes of Palestine activists in Michigan
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies raided multiple homes in Michigan, reportedly targeting a number of student activists connected to Gaza solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.
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We are the resistance
The UK Supreme Court does not change the reality of trans and non-binary people.
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Famed whistleblower Philip Agee among CIA officers who worked under State Department cover
Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover.
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U.S. maternal deaths rise by 27% in 5 years
Recent research shows that the national average rate of maternal deaths is now 32.6 per 100,000 live births, with much higher rates seen for Indigenous mothers with 106.3 deaths, and Black mothers with 76.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively.
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What can be passed down
How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy.
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Harvard welcomes MAGA witch hunt, becomes the hunted
The leadership of the Democratic Party nationally and especially in Massachusetts–who run the state from the U.S. Congress to its governor to Boston-area mayors and city councils–are championing the Harvard Corporation’s “standing up” to the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing attacks on Harvard.
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Trump’s NSC Director for Israel and Iran previously worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense
The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.
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Trump massacres Yemenis so Israel can massacre Palestinians
On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.
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UN agency says nearly 600 children killed in renewed Israeli assault on Gaza
UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.
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U.S. revokes around 1,500 student visas, universities say they weren’t notified
Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database.