Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
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Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.
Abiding Peace Requires Rejecting Both Netanyahu’s Genocidal Regime and Hamas
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/abiding-peace-requires-rejecting-both-netanyahus-genocidal-regime-and-hamas/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/abiding-peace-requires-rejecting-both-netanyahus-genocidal-regime-and-hamas/
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Abiding Peace Requires Rejecting Both Netanyahu’s Genocidal Regime and Hamas
After two years of deplorable brutality and agony, a precarious ceasefire finally appears to grace the Hamas-Israel War’s bloody horizon. May it hold. The
House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-report-chellie-pingree-letter
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-report-chellie-pingree-letter
ProPublica
House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical
In a letter to EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, cited a recent ProPublica story that quoted government scientists saying a yet-to-be-released report on the toxicity of PFNA was ready to publish in April.
The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”
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https://jacobin.com/2025/10/pepe-mujica-uruguay-movements-strategy/
Jacobin
The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”
What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.
JD Vance Thinks That Tomorrow Belongs to Hitler-Loving Young Republicans
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-young-republicans-nazis/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-young-republicans-nazis/
The Nation
JD Vance Thinks That Tomorrow Belongs to Hitler-Loving Young Republicans
In a post-shame era, racist slurs and Nazism can be shrugged off.
Congress’s Military Budget Carries Perks for Israel
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/military-budget-aipac-israel-defense/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/military-budget-aipac-israel-defense/
Jacobin
Congress’s Military Budget Carries Perks for Israel
As Palestinians return to Gaza amid the Trump administration’s precarious Israel-Hamas ceasefire, senators approved a $914 billion defense budget that fulfills several surveillance and weapons funding requests from the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.
Trump CIA Intervention in Venezuela Risks Another US War of Choice, Experts Warn
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https://www.commondreams.org/trump-venezuela-regime-change
Common Dreams
Trump CIA Intervention in Venezuela Risks Another US War of Choice, Experts Warn | Common Dreams
“Using covert or military measures to destabilize or overthrow regimes reminds us of some of the most notorious episodes in American foreign policy," said a former adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy
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MR Online
Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy | MR Online
The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal…
Fascism is a Thoroughly Modern Phenomenon
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Fascism is a Thoroughly Modern Phenomenon | MR Online
Unless there is going beyond neo-liberalism, which is necessary for overcoming the crisis it has caused, even a political defeat of the fascistic elements in elections, will only cause a temporary setback to them; they will come back to power again, as Donald…
Trump pledges $20B to Argentina, threatens to cut aid if country votes left
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MR Online
Trump pledges $20B to Argentina, threatens to cut aid if country votes left | MR Online
The Milei-Trump meeting secured a USD 20 billion financial bailout for Argentina’s unstable economy. Trump made future aid conditional on Milei winning the upcoming elections.
The AI bubble and the U.S. economy
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MR Online
The AI bubble and the U.S. economy | MR Online
So AI technology could eventually deliver higher productivity growth if it manages to shed human labour sufficiently.
Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg
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MR Online
Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg | MR Online
Israel is so evil it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around it.
Walls of Shame, Hall of Fame: Barenboim in Berlin
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/walls-of-shame-hall-of-fame-barenboim-in-berlin/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/walls-of-shame-hall-of-fame-barenboim-in-berlin/
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Walls of Shame, Hall of Fame: Barenboim in Berlin
The Berlin Wall was breached on the night of November 9th, 1989. The German Democratic Republic was done. East Berliners poured through the suddenly
Another Banner Week for White Supremacists
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/another-banner-week-for-white-supremacists/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/another-banner-week-for-white-supremacists/
The Nation
Another Banner Week for White Supremacists
In this week's Elie v. US, The Nation's justice correspondent connects the dots between the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Case and Trump’s whites-only refugee policy.
King Donald the First: Fuck That
https://www.commondreams.org/further/king-donald-the-first-fuck-that
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Common Dreams
King Donald the First: Fuck That | Common Dreams
The run-up to No Kings Day has seen a crazed wave of hysteria from a right wing shrieking about Hamas, Marxists, Huns, Orcs, Barbarians at the Gate with the sinister portent, "You'll see the hate for America all over this thing." What the. We think we'll…
Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
ProPublica
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
Europe and the US Are Drifting Apart and It Isn’t Just Because of Trump
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-von-der-leyen-trade-tariffs-china-tech/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-von-der-leyen-trade-tariffs-china-tech/
Jacobin
Europe and the US Are Drifting Apart and It Isn’t Just Because of Trump
Donald Trump is often blamed for the US’s hostility toward the EU, but the roots of the rift run deeper. Europe’s manufacturing-heavy economy and tough regulation of US tech have put it on a collision course with Washington.
