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Israel’s violence against Palestine survives the ceasefire: The Forty-First Newsletter (2026)
The assault on Palestinian existence is not confined to bombardment. The destruction of infrastructure, Israeli control over Palestinian money, and Western corporate complicity in apartheid are interconnected fronts of the same offensive.
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Senior U.S. prosecutor leaves case against kidnapped President Maduro and Cilia Flores
According to Bloomberg Law, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald informed the court that Richman’s employment ended on September 25, 2026.
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France: State brutality and media lies fail to break students’ resolve as workers mobilise in support of the revolt
Despite the barbarous attempts at repressing the student protests, more than a quarter of a million students continue to protest on the streets and from the barricades. Paris resident, John Mullen, reports on the explosion of widespread anger that has swept the country.
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The world since 7 October
Gaza is a generational touchstone and the key dividing line of politics in the West. It has laid bare the lies of the society we live in. It has exposed the genocidal bloodlust of the political right. And it has tested official “progressive” liberal politics.
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Ensuring that the unions’ bark will be worse than their bite
The United States had a Tricky Dick. Canada has a Sneaky Mark.
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Removing federal protections for wolves would be catastrophic
Keeping federal protections in place is our first line of defense against trophy hunting and recreational trapping, and our members of Congress and officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must hear that message from us.
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Student protests sweep France over school underfunding
Deepening anger over crumbling facilities, staff shortages, and police heavy-handedness drives nationwide classroom blockades.
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Mass protests topples Spanish government, new election called
Faced with thousands on the streets Premier Sanchez’s attempt to placate widespread unrest over the housing crisis were sunk by a right-wing coalition. As John Rees explains, the political balance in Spain is at a critical stage.
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U.S. liberal media literacy guide: “This isn’t who we are”
The liberal news media treat U.S. violence and oppression as aberrations from the country’s founding ideals rather than expressions of its fundamental character as a settler colony, empire, plantation, and concentration camp.
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Amazon is deploying AI to spy on its workers and bust unions before they form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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Is starvation Rubio’s only strategy? The new attack on Cuba’s private sector
Secretary of State Rubio got the jump on ‘Sanctions Thursday’ unveiling his new sanctions and revisions to the OFAC Frequently Asked Question website on Tuesday, September 29.
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CIA Director John Brennan pressed Ukraine government to use force in Donbass in April 2014
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets.
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Labour’s share
As the Tax Foundation correctly points out, total national income is not made up just of profits and wages received but also from depreciation. Depreciation is the amount of national income that companies must take into account as investment to replace obsolete and used up machinery, plant and tech etc i.e. not investment in new means of production.
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‘And they call it democracy’
Commentary on social democracy and the current state of the labour movement and its leadership was not as detailed.
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Nepal pays for a climate crisis it didn’t create
Catastrophic flooding in the Himalayan country has left families searching for answers.
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Venezuela’s battle for sovereignty continues
The U.S. attack of Jan. 3 killed over 100 persons and succeeded in kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, an elected member of the National Assembly.
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Sliman Mansour: A Life Spent Painting Hope
The late Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour left the world a precious legacy: an art whose symbolism mourns the longest exile of our age.
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The critical minerals beneath the Trump corollary: The Fortieth Newsletter (2026)
The imperial drive to monopolise critical minerals unmasks a renewed strategic architecture: securing military and industrial supply chains enforces peripheral subordination, turning sovereign nations across the Global South into captive reservoirs for Western capital.
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Karl Marx and German classical philosophy
On March 14th, 1883, Karl Marx passed away. On that day the proletariat of the entire terrestrial globe lost its brilliant and devoted leader.
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Trump amb. to Greece causes stir: U.S. has power to topple governments
Remarks by Trump’s envoy raise fresh questions over U.S. meddling in Romania’s political crisis and the fall of its government.
