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Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.
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Israel is about to empty Gaza
The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.
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Political policing in Canada
The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.
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Absolute car crash
As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.
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Oligarchy and the subversion of democracy–warnings from South Africa
The world has an oligarchy problem.
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The camouflaged U.S. invasion of Panama
Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country.
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Smashing walls, building firewalls, and breaking the digital siege
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.
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Don’t Negotiate: Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Under Attack by the Trump Administration from Harvard Law Professor of Negotiation (April 13, 2025)
As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.
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‘From Bad to Worse: The New Political Setting and Challenges for the Canadian Left’
The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working.
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America’s national parks are among the victims of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to drown our government in a bathtub
Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world… but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.
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Trump Administration’s affinity for Salvadoran dictator shows authoritarian nature
El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.
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Trump advisor reveals tariff strategy: Force countries to pay tribute to maintain U.S. empire
Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Stephen Miran revealed that Washington’s strategy is to use tariffs to force countries to pay the USA tribute to maintain its global financial and military empire. This is the idea behind the so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord”.
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Trump’s tariff aggression
It is important for an intellectual position not only to be right but to be right for the right reasons; and the near-universal condemnation of Donald Trump’s aggressive imposition of tariffs, though right, is right for the wrong reasons.
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Pentagon chief nominee wants to expand NATO’s nuclear sharing policy
Although the new administration is looking to refocus on the Asia-Pacific, the policy of expanded nuclear sharing makes sense, as it could ameliorate NATO’s growing conventional inferiority against the battle-hardened Russian military. For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the […]
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Trump’s slump
Where is all this going? Well, it means a slump in production in the U.S. and most major economies; and it means a revival of inflation, particularly in the U.S. This is madness, no? Well, as I said last February when all this kicked off, there is method in this madness.
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‘Let all Hell break loose’: The Gaza ceasefire and how we all got played
Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.
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Trump declares all state environmental laws to be null and void
Trump signed an executive order declaring all state laws that address climate change to be null and void.
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The anti-anti-Apartheid Movement
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.
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UN Chief calls Gaza a ‘killing field’ as agencies urge Global action on Israel’s blockade
UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “aid has dried up, and the floodgates of horror have re-opened” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid and resumed its assault.
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The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Communist prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)
Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.