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US Supreme Court to hear Exxon bid for compensation from Cuban entities
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear ExxonMobil's bid to obtain compensation from Cuban state-owned firms for oil and gas assets seized in 1960 under a federal law that lets Americans sue foreign companies and individuals over property confiscated by the communist-ruled Caribbean country. The justices took up Exxon's appeal of a lower court's ruling that undercut its legal efforts to win such compensation from Cuban state-owned companies that allegedly have profited from stolen property in litigation invoking a 1996 U.S. law called the Helms-Burton Act.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-supreme-court-hear-exxon-bid-compensation-cuban-entities-2025-10-03/

Border Patrol agents shoot woman amid Chicago immigration protests
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement Saturday that no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group, including the shot woman, rammed cars into vehicles used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The woman, a US citizen who was not identified, drove herself to the hospital, according to the statement. No additional information was immediately available about the woman’s condition.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/border-patrol-agents-shoot-woman-amid-chicago-immigration-protests
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Georgia-based journalist Mario Guevara arrives in El Salvador after his deportation from the U.S.
On Wednesday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Guevara's deportation could go forward, finding that, while the journalist did have the First Amendment right to report on the protest, he had not filed the proper paperwork to apply for permanent residency.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/journalist-mario-guevara-deported-el-salvador-court-ruling/

Education Department altered employees' emails to blame shutdown on Democrats, lawsuit says
The American Federation of Government Employees in a lawsuit alleged the administration violated employees' free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment by co-opting their email correspondence to force them to "recite partisan words that they would not have spoken otherwise." The complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., said the out-of-office email responses are crafted to appear as if the employees are speaking in the first person, suggesting the language should be ascribed to the furloughed workers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/education-department-altered-employees-emails-blame-shutdown-democrats-lawsuit-2025-10-04/

NYPD and ICE assault journalists in New York City
In the first case, on Monday, the NYPD raided the home of photojournalist Alexa B. Wilkinson. Police arrested and charged Wilkinson with aggravated harassment and hate crimes. The police also seized video equipment and phones. The charges stemmed from a July 30 incident Wilkinson reported on, in which protesters covered the New York Times headquarters on 8th Avenue in Manhattan with graffiti. Protesters charged the newspaper with complicity in the Gaza genocide because of its pro-Zionist reporting and editorial policies.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/04/uucf-o04.html

Chevron refinery fire in El Segundo extinguished; investigation underway into cause
LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell said crews contained the fire to one area of the refinery. She added that residents did not have to evacuate, but advised residents to stay inside and visitors to stay away from El Segundo for the time being. "It has been contained and there is no cause for alarm for El Segundo or the surrounding areas," Mitchell said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/large-fire-erupts-at-los-angeles-county-refinery/

Prosecutors seek to have ex-Green Beret accused of failed Venezuelan plot back in custodyv
Over the objections of prosecutors, a judge in Tampa last year ordered Jordan Goudreau’s release a few weeks after he was arrested on weapons smuggling charges tied to the failed coup attempt. Filmmaker Jen Gatien’s had pledged her $2 million Manhattan apartment as collateral. In a court filing Friday, prosecutors said the court would have likely kept Goudreau jailed pending trial had it known about an “undisclosed side agreement” for the three-time Bronze Star recipient to surrender to his attorney “significant cryptocurrency holdings” and other assets to mitigate her financial risk.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-green-beret-maduro-5a8ec0be3fca436d1e848a2b7ad55721

James Connolly: Our Rulers as a Study
The most interesting study for an intelligent worker to take up and make his own is, in our opinion, the study of the natural history of the ruling class. It is not only interesting in itself, but leads to and makes necessary excursions into all sorts of allied fields of study, so that once you have begun to take it up seriously you are led on almost unconsciously to a broadening of your field of vision, and a deepening of your insight into the heart of things. Also, as you grasp more firmly the lines on which the ruling class proceed, and the policy which enables them to retain their place in the saddle, you receive a higher opinion of the worth to the world of the mere toilers and humble ones whose place is among the ruled, whose backs itch with the gall sores of the saddle these gentry bestride Some such thoughts as these must surely be arising in the minds of many Irish workers in Dublin and throughout Ireland to-day. They must see around them continually accumulating evidences of the unscrupulous methods by which the ruling class strive to ensure a continuance of their ruling. They must see how in times of security the ruling class bully, brow-beat and tyrannise over the people, and how in times of insecurity these same rulers come around whining and crawling, and protesting their common interest with those whom but yesterday they denounced as dogs and rabble.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/01/rulers.htm

What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin: Conclusion
The history of Russian Social-Democracy can be distinctly divided into three periods:
The first period embraces about ten years, approximately from 1884 to 1894. This was the period of the rise and consolidation of the theory and programme of Social-Democracy. The adherents of the new trend in Russia were very few in number. Social-Democracy existed without a working-class movement, and as a political party it was at the embryonic stage of development. The second period embraces three or four years—1894-98, In this period Social-Democracy appeared on the scene as a social movement, as the upsurge of the masses of the people, as a political party. This is the period of its childhood and adolescence. The intelligentsia was fired with a vast and general zeal for struggle against Narodism and for going among the workers; the workers displayed a general enthusiasm for strike action. The movement made enormous strides. The majority of the leaders were young people who had not reached “the age of thirty-five” which to Mr. N. Mikhailovsky appeared to be a sort of natural border-line. Owing to their youth, they proved to be untrained for practical work and they left the scene with astonishing rapidity. But in the majority of cases the scope of their activity was very wide. Many of them had begun their revolutionary thinking as adherents of Narodnaya Volya. Nearly all had in their early youth enthusiastically worshipped the terrorist heroes. It required a struggle to abandon the captivating impressions of those heroic traditions, and the struggle was accompanied by the breaking off of personal relations with people who were determined to remain loyal to the Narodnaya Volya and for whom the young Social-Democrats had profound respect. The struggle compelled the youthful leaders to educate themselves to read illegal literature of every trend, and to study closely the questions of legal Narodism. Trained in this struggle, Social-Democrats went into the working-class movement without “for a moment” forgetting either the theory of Marxism, which brightly illumined their path, or the task of overthrowing the autocracy. The formation of the Party in the spring of 1898 was the most striking and at the same time the last act of the Social-Democrats of this period.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/concl.htm

Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Under U.S. law, there is no statutory framework for designating domestic groups as terrorist organizations. Congress has empowered the Secretary of State to designate Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The executive branch has also used the International Emergency Powers Act to sanction Specially Designated Global Terrorists. While this designation has been applied to U.S. groups and even U.S. citizens, to be designated the U.S. government must allege they acted on behalf of or provided services to foreign terrorists. Because the U.S. considers activity that in any other context would be First Amendment–protected speech to be “coordinated advocacy,” these designations have sweeping ramifications for domestic political speech. These designations have no domestic counterpart, but the FBI under its current guidelines is empowered to conduct “enterprise” investigations into terrorism or racketeering. While there may be no designation for domestic terrorist organizations, the FBI does investigate domestic groups as “terrorist enterprises.” And as recently as 2019, the FBI was demarcating its domestic terrorism investigations by ideology, such as “anarchist extremism, “black separatist extremism,” “Puerto Rican Independence Extremism,” “militia extremism,” and “white supremacy extremism.” This included a case classification for terrorist enterprise investigations into anarchist extremists. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray previously told Congress that the FBI had opened anarchist extremist investigations into individuals inspired by Antifa beliefs. likely gave the FBI the greenlight to pursue them. If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, NSPM-7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trumps-blueprint-to-crush-the-left-antifa-domestic-terror-nspm-7

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