/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>Modi says India stands 'firmly' with Israel during visit, fails to mention Gaza
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Why are the like this?

Maduro’s lawyer says US is blocking Venezuela government from paying deposed leader’s drug defense
Less than three hours later, though, the Trump administration snatched back the authorization “without explanation,” though it left in place a license granting permission for Maduro’s wife’s lawyers to be paid, Pollack said.
https://apnews.com/article/maduro-venezuela-criminal-case-9dc08ea33228d05feec7ab3c473dd762

Judge orders Greenpeace to pay $345m over Dakota Access pipeline protest
In court papers filed Tuesday, Judge James Gion said he would sign an order requiring several Greenpeace entities to pay the judgment to pipeline company Energy Transfer. He set that amount at $345m last year in a decision that reduced a jury’s damages by about half, but his latest filing did not specify a final amount.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/greenpeace-dakota-access-pipeline-protest

‘Arsonist as Fire Chief’: Fed Appoints Wall Street Lobbyist to Key Bank Oversight Role
Before joining Fed staff last year as an adviser to the central bank’s vice chair for supervision, Guynn worked for close to four decades at the corporate law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he recently chaired the company’s Financial Institutions Group. According to Guynn’s bio, he has “focused on advising banks of all sizes on their most critical financial regulatory issues and transactions.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fed-wall-street-lobbyist

Lawyers say Pennsylvania student protesters did not know a man who joined scrum was the police chief
The attorneys said the students from Quakertown Community High School who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement policies acted in self-defense and will fight the charges. They include a simple assault charge elevated to aggravated assault, a felony, because the alleged victim is Police Chief Scott McElree. “He charged from his vehicle into the middle of this group of kids,” defense lawyer Donald Souders said Wednesday. “Many of the kids jumped in, in an attempt to defend her. They assumed that this was a counterprotester.”
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-student-protesters-police-pennsylvania-b932e650f2d06a1025f9d85147f092d1

Maine university pulls support from conference on Palestine, citing Trump sanctions
More than 300 participants have registered to attend the “Consequence of Palestine” conference, which was slated to include remote participation from Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, who has been under sanction by the Trump administration since last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/university-southern-maine-palestine-conference-trump

Florida Republicans Ripped for Advancing Show-Me-Your-Papers Voter ID Bill
With 251 days until the US general election, Florida Republicans on Wednesday passed a show-me-your-papers bill that opponents warn could prevent thousands of eligible state voters from registering if they don’t have a valid birth certificate or passport, or their documents don’t reflect a name change.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-voter-id

Glyfada Floods Reveal Greece’s Deep-Rooted Infrastructure Failures and Social Inequality
On January 21, streets in Athens turned into rivers at night. In the southern suburbs – like Glyfada – streets turned deadly. Roads were destroyed by floodwaters, while cars were pushed down the streets from the wave. During the flooding, a 56-year-old woman lost her life caught in the current during the storm. She was found trapped beneath a vehicle. Firefighters rushed to the scene to rescue her, but she was pronounced dead during her move to the hospital in the ambulance. In the following days, the Mayor of Glyfada publicly targeted Greece’s main electricity distributor – Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO). They called for legal actions due to the assumption of the company’s infrastructure negligence. The municipality of Glyfada pointed out that HEDNO’s cable works had been the cause of worsening the flooding situation. They argue that it had created debris that would unleash more than 1,200 cubic meters of water and dirt downstream. They also pointed out how HEDNO failed to provide any safety documents for the public. HEDNO responded that they were not responsible, and they have suggested inviting judicial review.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/glyfada-floods-reveal-greeces-deep-rooted-infrastructure-failures-and-social-inequality/

The Rise And Fail Of The Griftocrats
I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’ progeny of Fox News/NewsMax outrage peddlers and the corporate-funded nomenklatura/apparatchik clowns of the rightwing think tank shit-circuses. Oprah’s grift emanates from the same capitalist ideological snake oil of self-bootstraps transcendence; withal, if an individual visualizes the capitalist order’s conception of success with the proper measure of rigorous intensity and unquestioning belief in the magical nature of the system then the universe will align with your entitled destiny. If not the failure is all on you — but not, in any manner due to the (rigged against you) system. It was in the Oprah cosmology of con artistry that Jeffrey Epstein confidant and enabler Deepak Chopra retailed his New Age spiel that engaging in a ghost dance with constellations of quantum entanglement would deliver the true believer to material success and perpetual psychical bliss. In essence, the mode of belief is and remains the “power of positive thinking” salesman’s credo of Ronald Reagan (“Its morning again in America”) and Donald Trump (“Make America great again”) political hucksters that trace their worldview back to the “good news” testifiers of Christian evangelists’ so-called prosperity gospel. In a capitalist culture in which anything and everything, from ghostly quanta to human flesh is fodder for exploitation and passes as normal – i.e., The Epstein Island Of Everyday American Life – then the contents of The Epstein File and the personages named would only come as a shock to the noxiously naive.UFO enthusiasts posit, we have entered into the “Age Of Disclosure.” One would have to have been abducted by aliens – or be alienated into deep, protective insularity — to have experienced ontological shock at the news that the capitalist overclass was a private club reserved for High Dollar degenerates. In that case, welcome to childhood’s end.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/25/the-rise-and-fail-of-the-griftocrats/

An organisation of workers’ autonomy? – Historical texts and current considerations (2)
In the first part of this series we could read about the conflictual relationship between the main national extra-parliamentary groups of the far-left in Italy in the 1970s, such as Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio, and the political organisms of workers autonomy. In this part we document translations of two political proposals by three of the main autonomous worker organisations: the Autonomous Assembly at Alfa Romeo and Pirelli and the struggle committee at Sit-Siemens, mainly located in Milan. These autonomous assemblies were the bridges between autonomous factory struggle, proletarian actions in the working class neighbourhoods and the wider political movement. In particular the work at Alfa Romeo was impressive, as this workers’ documentary, shot as a collective effort at the time, demonstrates. The collective at Alfa Romeo produced their own factory paper, ‘Senza Padroni’ (Without Bosses), analysing, amongst many other things, the current moment of bosses’ counterattack through repression and inflation; the lessons of the coup in Chile 1973; the situation of struggles in various factory departments; the question of workers’ health inside and outside the factory; the wildcat strike at Ford in Cologne; the outcomes of the conference of autonomous factory assemblies and the current activities of fascists at Alfa, including a list of their complete names and their places of work. The comrades also published a 200 page diary of the main struggle at Alfa from 1972 to 1973, with concrete reports and wide-ranging analysis, including inquiries into the health conditions at the foundries together with medical doctor comrades; actions against housing evictions that target not only Alfa workers; self-defense against physical attacks by Communist Party trade unionists on the autonomous struggle; and reports on the collaboration with student committees. Here are two short excerpts that give a flavour of the intense activity of the comrades.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2026/02/21/an-organisation-of-workers-autonomy-historical-texts-and-current-considerations-2/

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