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The Supreme Court decision: When law becomes the means of oppression
DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism.
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Yemen – U.S. concedes Maritime defeat
Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.
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Cuban days against homophobia and transphobia have begun
The National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) launched the 18th edition of the Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Monday.
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Police storm Columbia University library, arrest pro-Palestinian student protesters
Footage showed a heavy police presence as students clashed with security and barricaded themselves inside the library.
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The rising star of Cpt. Ibrahim Traore – Burkina Faso’s spirit of Sankara
The new, bold and vibrant leader of Burkina Faso, has left his continental colleagues in the dust, when representing Pan-African leadership…
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Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts
Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.
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The long history of illegality in U.S. policy toward Latin America
It seems as if the entire disgraceful history of U.S. illegality in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has sparked outrage in the United States among human rights defenders and opponents of the Trump administration.
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What explains India’s response to Trump?
To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.
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Israel’s backers keep whining that they’re losing control of the narrative
Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.
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There’s an under-reported Israel angle to the corporate effort to muzzle ’60 Minutes’
Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.
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World military spending explodes
Every dollar added to the world’s military budgets takes us closer to a potentially apocalyptic scenario of world war.
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As U.S. military prepares for war on China, Silicon Valley tech oligarchs are profiting
The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.
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This election was a disaster for the NDP and unions
The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.
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Amidst capitalist crisis and war, Russian Communists struggle against Putin and the oligarchs
Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]
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The U.S./EU/NATO’s Regime change playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
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Russia rejects Trump’s freeze of the war in Ukraine
The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.
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Tariff negotiations and the farmers
ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.
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They are making Venezuela’s economy scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)
U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?
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Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar
The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.
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Trump is the symptom, U.S. imperialism is the disease
U.S. Peace Council Statement