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What Rodolfo Walsh would demand we write in his place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)
As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.
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European militarism on steroids is not good, either
Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks.
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The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.
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Israel kills Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat as U.S. media look away
The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24.
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Trump threatens 25% tariff on Countries buying Venezuelan oil as U.S. continues migrant crackdown
The White House said it planned to once again invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to extradite Venezuelan nationals.
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Trump’s Star Wars revival: The Golden Dome antimissile fantasy
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better.
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‘A small group of people wanted to do away with Social Security from the beginning’
CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks.
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In complying with Trump’s demands to crack down on free speech, Columbia confesses that money, not education, is its goal
Columbia University quickly rolled over for the Trump administration’s demands to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, pulling back the thin veil of liberal academic freedom.
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Betar: The far-Right hate group helping Trump deport Israel’s critics
A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States.
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From Hawai’i: To the U.S., we’re a giant military station
Increasing militarization of the Pacific continues to cause tension inside and outside the region. In Hawai‘i, where the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet is stationed, Indigenous rights advocates have fought for decades against expansive military occupation and use of their lands and surrounding ocean.
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Trump’s attacks on Yemen will cost U.S. taxpayers billions
The immense cost to U.S. taxpayers of Trump’s assault on Yemen, which promises no results and primarily serves Israel’s interests, could easily reach the tens of billions at the current pace, especially considering the intensity of operations is much greater than under his predecessor.
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Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’, returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago.
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From welfare to warfare: Military Keynesianism
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the U.S. under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it.
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U.S. officials’ planned visit to Greenland is inappropriate: Denmark
If they don’t clearly condemn the U.S. treatment of Greenland, the situation will escalate every day, President Egede warned.
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The Pentagon is recruiting Elon Musk to help them win a nuclear war
Donald Trump has announced his intention to build a gigantic anti-ballistic missile system to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons, and he is recruiting Elon Musk to help him.
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Pentagon downplays Elon Musk visit for secret China war plans
In a rare public denial from the highest levels of government, the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and President Donald Trump all swiftly responded to reports that tech billionaire Elon Musk was scheduled to receive a classified briefing on U.S. war plans for China.
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Letter from a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana
Authorities arrested and are attempting to deport Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States and prominent figure in last year’s Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment.
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Carney may be better than Poilievre, but serious issues remain
A consummate technocrat like Mark Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain.
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Trump 2.0 and China – the real situation of the U.S. economy
To then ascertain which policies would be necessary to speed up the U.S. economy it is necessary to analyse the underlying relation between changes in the structure of the U.S. economy and changes in U.S. GDP growth rates.
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TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony
The following article by Carlos Martinez responds to a recent article in The Times complaining about TikTok users not being sufficiently anti-China. The only explanation the Times journalist can muster is that TikTok’s algorithms must be weighted to promote pro-CPC content.