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PFLP Praises the Heroic “Gush Etzion” Operation
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the heroic operation that targeted the “Gush Etzion” settlement established on occupied land south of Bethlehem, which resulted in the killing of a settler and the injury of eight others, including one serious injury, and confirms that this operation represents a natural response to the escalation of settler crimes in the occupied West Bank. This operation proves that the will of our Palestinian people is stronger than the terrorism of settlers and occupation plans, and also confirms that resistance will not remain idle in the face of crimes committed by occupation soldiers and settlers in the West Bank.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/23312/

The Trouble With Fascism Analogies
Over three decades ago, the British historian Tim Mason sounded the alarm. He spoke of a “disappearance of theories or articulated concepts of fascism from research and writing.” Examining the relationship between Italian Fascism and German Nazism, Mason urged scholars to identify these regimes’ “specific” similarities and their contrasts, while maintaining “a strict agnosticism” about the radical uniqueness of either of them. At first glance, such debates may seem remote from today’s political climate, when discussion of fascism seems ever present. Yet the questions Mason raised resonate powerfully also today. As the far right advances, from Latin America to India and from the United States to Russia and across Europe, there is an urgent need to analyze this resurgence with intellectual rigor and historical depth. Beyond the initial shock at the rise of such forces lies an urgent question: How to respond? How to alert and mobilize the social forces needed to counter their agenda? Understanding the roots of this apparent “return of fascism” is anything but straightforward. And is this even the right term? The use of “fascism” to describe today’s political currents remains fiercely contested. For some, the label is crucial, offering a framework for predicting what comes next. Yet if history surely can illuminate the present, it can’t foretell the future.
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/fascism-analogies-far-rigPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

House Passes Resolution Condemning Socialism Ahead of Mamdani White House Visit
“Yes” votes included House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), who waited until the last minute to give a lukewarm endorsement of Mamdani earlier this month, despite Mamdani being the Democratic nominee.
https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-resolution-condemning-socialism-ahead-of-mamdani-white-house-visit/
https://archive.ph/jKtPI

Officer acquitted in death of Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting
The Ohio police officer who shot and killed Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting, was acquitted on all counts Friday, including murder. Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb had faced up to life in prison if convicted. Young’s grandmother collapsed into sobs at the decision, shouting “It’s not right! This is not right!” The judge then told Grubb he was free to go.
https://apnews.com/article/takiya-young-connor-grubb-officer-shooting-shoplifting-ab9b30a450f7cc2ed051f15c73305a34

US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island
The two men, 21-year-old Gavin Rivers Weisenburg and 20-year-old Tanner Christopher Thomas, have been accused of plotting to take the island by force, utilizing the homeless population of Washington DC, then killing all the men on the island and “using the women and children as sex slaves”, according to an announcement by the US attorney’s office of the eastern district of Texas on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/texas-haiti-rape-indictment

UPS cargo plane involved in deadly crash had cracks in engine mount, investigators say
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Can Canada’s NDP Step Back From the Brink of Electoral Ruin?
In March, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) will elect a new leader. This April, the federal party suffered its worst election showing ever, winning a mere seven seats. Leader Jagmeet Singh promptly resigned. Five candidates have registered in the race to replace him, including current member of parliament (MP) Heather McPherson, activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis, union leader Rob Ashton, social worker and town councilor Tanille Johnston, and Tony McQuail, a farmer and former party candidate. Montreal activist Yves Engler is running but has yet to register with the party. To get a sense of the state of the race to date and where it might be headed, Jacobin writers David Moscrop and Edgardo Sepulveda examine four aspects of the party and the leadership competition. They take up the historical context, how candidates are addressing environmental, economic, and industrial policy, the class and cultural dynamics at play, and the state of party democracy.
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/ndp-canada-election-leader-democracy

Culling The Working Class: Acceleration and the Period of Capitalist Democide - Jeff Shantz
Capitalism has moved into a stage of open mass culling of the working class—starting with those currently deemed unusable (as workers or consumers). This is a rapidly escalating period of democide—state killing of its own populations—for capital. For purposes—requirements—of accumulation. It will increasingly expand that category as fewer and fewer workers and consumers are needed to maintain profitability. Tightened conditions of accumulation mean that the ruling class is not simply okay with working-class people dying off—they have determined it is a necessity that must happen, and as quickly as possible. Automation, robotization, AI, put to new and more expansive uses will ensure this culling of the unusable is an ongoing need of capital. As conditions of accumulation become tighter, more avenues will need to be opened spatially. What has been called accumulation by dispossession, already advancing in cities (street sweeps of unhoused people, encampment evictions, displacement, and gentrification) and the countryside (land grabs, extractives expansion) is switching over to accumulation by democide. And thiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Verizon is cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it works to ‘reorient’ entire company
For its third quarter of 2025, Verizon posted earnings of $4.95 billion and $33.82 billion in revenue. The carrier reported continued subscriber growth for its prepaid wireless services, but it lost a net 7,000 postpaid connections. News of coming layoffs at Verizon was reported last week by The Wall Street Journal. The outlet says that the 13,000 job cuts mark the largest-ever round of layoffs at the company.
https://apnews.com/article/verizon-layoffs-economy-jobs-1aa299fc28b8e7211188f9b084d1048c

Feds Dismiss Charges Against Woman Shot by Border Patrol Agent in Brighton Park
In a one-page motion filed Thursday morning, assistant U.S. attorneys Ronald DeWald and Aaron Bond said they “respectfully (move) this Court to dismiss the indictment” against Martinez and another man, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, who were each charged in October following the shooting at 39th Street and Kedzie. … Prosecutors in court Thursday confirmed the case would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the criminal charges against Martinez and Ruiz cannot be refiled at a later date.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/20/feds-dismiss-charges-against-woman-shot-border-patrol-agent-brighton-park

ICE official struggles to answer questions about Abrego Garcia's potential deportation
When pressed by Abrego Garcia's attorneys about the contents of the sealed declaration regarding the government's communication with Costa Rica, their client's preferred country of removal, Cantu said he did not understand parts of his declaration.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-official-struggles-answer-questions-abrego-garcias-potential/story?id=127714915

Bay Area’s poverty soared, data shows, as California’s top earners saw windfalls
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JIM JUMP chair of the International Brigade Memorial Trust: The struggle against Franco’s legacy continues
“SPANIARDS, Franco has died,” came the announcement 50 years ago on Spanish TV. If there was any truth to the widely held story that Barcelona immediately ran out of cava, the corks would have been popping behind closed doors. Most Spaniards held their breath on November 20 1975, fearful of what might happen next. After nearly four decades of brutal dictatorship, reactionary forces dominated the country’s institutions and the generalisimo himself had boasted that everything was being left “well tied up.” Confounding expectations, however, King Juan Carlos appointed a government that steered Spain towards free elections in 1977, the first since the Spanish Republic. In 1981 he helped face down a botched coup attempt by die-hard army and civil guard units, who briefly seized the Cortes, the Spanish parliament. In the following year the PSOE (Workers Socialist Party of Spain) — the dominant party in the Republic’s Popular Front government — won the general election. Today Juan Carlos, who abdicated in favour of son Filipe in 2014, is again at the centre of controversy. His autobiography praises Franco’s “intelligence and political sense.” But it says nothing in 500 pages about the victims of Franco, nor the scars that the Spanish civil war have left on Spanish society.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/struggle-against-francos-legacy-continues

Bugonia: The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos—“All that’s been done to us … We’re setting that right again”
Elon Musk was recently awarded a one-trillion-dollar pay package over ten years. “If Musk works a 40-hour work week with two weeks’ vacation, or about 20,000 hours for 10 years, that’s $50 million an hour.” Tesla “production associates” make $23 an hour. And 23 goes into 50 million approximately 2,173,913 times. In Bugonia, Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, two cousins, beekeeper-warehouse worker Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and Don (Aidan Delbis), kidnap a successful, powerful corporate executive, Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), in an act of revenge and hold her captive in their basement. They are not looking for ransom but for her to admit that she is part of an alien conspiracy (launched from Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Mamdani pleads directly with NYC-DSA to not back Chi Osse’s run against Hakeem Jeffries
Tascha van Auken, the field director of Mamdani’s campaign who’s influential in the DSA, also argued against endorsing Osse during the Wednesday night confab. She focused her remarks on questioning whether Osse is loyal to the principles of the socialist group, which he only became a dues-paying member of this past summer after Mamdani’s mayoral primary victory. Other DSA members at the meeting argued for backing Osse’s run, including Brooklyn Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher and Gustavo Gordillo, the DSA New York City chapter’s co-chair, according to the sources.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/mamdani-pleads-directly-with-nyc-dsa-to-not-back-chi-osses-run-against-hakeem-jeffries/
https://archive.ph/jlinm

Trump signs bill to compel release of more Epstein documents
The justice department has 30 days to release all files related to Epstein, including the investigation into his death by suicide in a federal prison cell. The legislation permits redacting identifying information of victims, but specifically bars officials from declining to disclose information over concerns about “embarrassment, reputational harm or political sensitivity”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/trump-sign-bill-epstein-files

House votes to repeal Senate's $500k perk for seized phone records
The House voted unanimously Wednesday to repeal a provision tucked into the recently passed government funding bill that allows senators to sue the Justice Department for up to $500,000 if their phone records are seized without their knowledge
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/house-repeal-senate-500k-seized-phone-records-doj
https://archive.ph/TVoC4

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Die Linke’s Youth Passes a Pro-Palestinian Resolution — and the Party Attacks Them
Germany’s Left Party has always been committed to Zionism. Die Linke stalwarts like Gesine Lötzsch and Petra Pau take part in propaganda trips to Israel, while Bodo Ramelow complains about having to see pictures of murdered Palestinian children (“Hamas shit”). These are not minor figures in the party: two have been vice presidents of the German parliament, the Bundestag. When the German government called for a rally in support of Israel (attended by just a few thousand people), Die Linke co-chair Martin Schwirdewan expressed his solidarity. Yet things are changing. Since the elections in February, tens of thousands of new members have joined Die Linke, and many are instinctively opposed to the genocide in Gaza. The change can be seen most directly in the youth organization Linksjugend [‘solid]. At a congress in early November, 70 percent of delegates voted for a resolution, “Never again silent about genocide,” that recognized Israel’s “colonial and racist character.” This resolution put Linksjugend directly in the crosshairs of the right-wing press and their own party leadership.
https://www.leftvoice.org/die-linkes-youth-passes-a-pro-palestinian-resolution-and-the-party-attacks-them/

Your Party can overcome its problems — but compromise is needed
There are little or no underlying political differences, or at least none which could not be accommodated within the framework of a broad progressive electoral formation, which Your Party — or whatever it is ultimately called — must be to thrive. However, one issue is now a particular source of alarm. That is the evidence that the rancour within Your Party is affecting the broader relationship between the left and the Muslim communities. This has emerged in the form of sharp polemics over the issue of trans rights and “social conservatism” more generally. The unease felt in sections of otherwise supportive Muslim communities over attempts to make these touchstone issues appears to be among the reasons leading one MP, Blackburn’s Adnan Hussain, announcing that he will no longer play any part in the party. Another, autism scorebal Mohamed in Dewsbury, has expressed similar concerns, writing that “factions Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule
Specifically, the documents showed the rule would exclude senior employees from legal protections that prohibit U.S. government agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers who accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the law or wasting funds.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-federal-employees-would-lose-whistleblower-safeguards-under-trump-rule-2025-11-18/

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
The Education Department’s office of elementary and secondary education, as well as its postsecondary education office, will move to the Labor Department, officials said. The agency’s Office of Indian Education will also move to the Interior Department while supervision of the Fulbright-Hays overseas research program and all of the government’s international education and foreign language initiatives will move to the State Department. Additionally, the department will send both a campus child care access and foreign medical school accreditation program to the Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-administration-sets-out-massive-education-department-restructuring-plan-00656464
https://archive.ph/HAgP3

Congress passes bill to release ‘Epstein files’, sending measure to Trump
The United States Congress has approved a bill to release government documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, clearing the way for making the files public. The House of Representatives adopted the measure in a 427-1 vote on Tuesday, sending it to the Senate, which swiftly agreed to pass it by unanimous consent even before it was formally transmitted to the chamber.
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Interview With the PFLP Political Relations Abdullah Al-Danan — “Resistance Lives in the Hearts of the Palestinian People”
After all the dramatic events from October 7, 2023, up to the ceasefire, how do you assess the situation in Gaza? Do you believe Israel will abide by the ceasefire and the other agreed-upon terms?
The situation in Gaza is, of course, dire. There are more than 70,000 martyrs, over 10,000 missing persons, and more than 100,000 wounded — many of them amputees. As for adherence to the ceasefire, we do not trust this Zionist entity or this enemy. We have no faith in its promises, nor in those who have guaranteed this agreement. (Israel, editors note) has already violated the deal. Today, three martyrs were killed in Gaza. This morning, the ceasefire was breached in the eastern part of the Strip — just as it has been in Lebanon, where the number of violations has now exceeded 6,000. We have no confidence in this agreement. As some officials noted today, even the American president declared that he would give the green light for renewed bombings if Hamas failed to return the bodies of dead Zionist captives. This agreement is not guaranteed — unfortunately. But there are also factors preventing this entity from continuing the war in Gaza as before. Israel has not achieved any of the goals it set out at the beginning of its aggression. Not a single one. As Netanyahu himself admitted in the Knesset, he paid a heavy price in Gaza for attempting to free the Zionist captives. At first, the aggression began with the occupation of Gaza. Then came economic projects aimed at turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” followed by divisions between Arab and international forces.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22978/

The BBC ‘coup’: A ruling class at war with itself
In the 1940s, the BBC lied about the extent of anti-colonial sentiment in India to justify British rule. And then, in the 1950s, it whitewashed British atrocities in Kenya. In the 1970s, the BBC explicitly ramped up its pro-Tory bias in the face of industrial unrest, reaching a pinnacle in the 1980s, when it doctored footage of the Miners’ Strike to cover up police violence. In the 2000s, the BBC was weaponised by the ruling class to whip up support for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And in the 2010s, it repeatedlPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

At Least 12 Somali Civilians—Including 8 Children—Killed in Suspected US Airstrikes
The Somali Guardian reported that the strikes occurred near the southern Somali town of Jamame in the Lower Juba region. In addition to the 12 civilians killed, nine others were reportedly wounded in the attack.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-airstrikes-somalia-civilians

EPA moves to limit scope of clean water law to reduce amount of wetlands it covers
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for vast areas.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-clean-water-act-wetlands-protection-farmers-0b2447e3bfd86f4766d4ef74edcd6dbd

Democrats seek to halt Trump’s reported plan to sell off student loan portfolio
The Democrats argue it is illegal to strip borrowers of certain protections and the Trump administration in the sale of the portfolio could go after income-driven repayment programs, death and disability discharges and relief for those defrauded by their schools. It could also cause losses to the taxpayer, according to Democrats. The law states the student loan portfolio cannot be sold at the expense of the taxpayer.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5608859-trump-student-loan-portfolio-debt-relief-warren/
https://archive.ph/S819S

Ted Cruz sets stage for 2028 run with Tucker jabs
Cruz, the runner-up to Trump in the 2016 GOP primary, has been taking steps toward a presidential run. He's been hitting the speaker's circuit, including with recent appearances before the Miami-Dade Republican Party and the Maverick PAC, an organization geared toward young conservatives.
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(TRUE ANON ) Episode 502: Red Scare
We welcome back Aaron Leonard to have an in-depth talk about his new book, MENACE OF OUR TIME: The Long War Against American Communism
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-502-red-143572606

The immigration debate in Quebec explained
The immigration debate regularly makes headlines in Quebec. The Parti Québécois, which leads the polls, has made immigration one of its main campaign issues. They promise to reduce immigration to relieve pressure on public services, tackle the housing crisis, and slow the decline of the French language. The CAQ has historically made a lot of noise about this issue. But it now finds itself between a rock and a hard place, having presided over a significant increase in immigration despite its promise to “take in fewer but take care of them.” Even the Quebec Liberal Party claims that Quebec’s “integration capacity” has been exceeded. What should be the communist position on this issue?
https://www.marxist.ca/article/the-immigration-debate-in-quebec-explained

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir: Conclusion
‘NO, WOMAN is not our brother; through indolence and deceit we have made of her a being apart, unknown, having no weapon other than her sex, which not only means constant warfare but unfair warfare – adoring or hating, but never a straight friend, a being in a legion with esprit de corps and freemasonry – the defiant gestures of the eternal little slave.’
Many men would still subscribe to these words of Laforgue; many think that there will always be ‘strife and dispute’, as Montaigne put it, and that fraternity will never be possible. The fact is that today neither men nor women are satisfied with each other. But the question is to know whether there is an original curse that condemns them to rend each other or whether the conflicts in which they are opposed merely mark a transitional moment in human history. Legends notwithstanding, no physiological destiny imposes an eternal hostility upon Male and Female as such; even the famous praying mantis devours her male only for want of other food and for the good of the species: it is to this, the specPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

New Age Verification Bills Could Ban VPNs, Jeopardize the Privacy of Millions
In Wisconsin, Senate Bill 130 proposes that sites use “reasonable age verification methods” and requires the publishers and distributors of “material harmful to minors” to prevent access from known VPN IP addresses. Under the bill, entities in violation of the law would be subject to civil penalties. In Michigan, House Bill 4938 takes it a step further and proposes an all-out ban on VPNs entirely. The lawmakers in support of the bill, called the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, want internet service providers in the state to “actively monitor and block known circumvention tools.” The bill prohibits “the promotion or sale of circumvention tools to access prohibited material.” Violators would be subject to civil and criminal penalties of up to 25 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000 under the proposed legislation.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-age-verification-bills-could-ban-vpns-jeopardize-the-privacy-of-millions/
https://archive.ph/vRZXq

Bruce Harrell concedes Seattle's mayoral race to Katie Wilson
Wilson, who has been called "the Zohran Mamdani of Seattle," appealed to many voters concerned about affordability, housing, homelessness, and public safety. Wilson has never held elected office and is a co-founder of the Transit Riders Union, an advocacy group for improved public transportation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/14/katie-wilson-seattle-mayor-bruce-harrell/87258593007/
https://archive.ph/axtYi

She’s challenging Bass from the left. Could she become L.A.’s Mamdani?
Huang, who is planning a campaign launch on Sunday, is shying away from comparisons to Mamdani, a democratic socialist who was elected mayor of New York City last week. She has not been endorsed by DSA-LA, though she hopes to be. Nevertheless, she sees next year’s electPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Chile’s General Election Shows the Threat of the Far Right, the Limits of the Center-Left, and the Potential of a Revolutionary Alternative
On November 16, Chile will hold its general election and many are predicting that the country will be the next in the region to shift to the right. The leading candidates for the presidency are right-wing populist José Antonio Kast, who has formed international ties with the Far Right, and Jeannette Jara Román, a member of the Communist Party who is viewed as far-left by some, despite her strategy of working within the existing structures of the Chilean state. Other candidates include a traditional right-winger, Evelyn Matthei, and a far-right candidate, Johannes Kaiser, who promises to deregulate everything and unleash more police violence and repression. Polling suggests that Jara might come in first, leading to a runoff with Kast, but she has little chance of winning in a second round. A surprise victory by Kaiser is also possible. Right-wing candidates have focused their campaigns on fearmongering about migrants and blaming them for the country’s problems. They also target the Indigenous Mapuche community, which has long struggled against the Chilean state over land and resource extraction. The Right aims to further subordinate Chile to U.S. imperialism, much like other right-wing governments in Latin America, such as Javier Milei in Argentina, Luis Arce in Bolivia, and Daniel Noboa in Ecuador. And although a “communist” candidate is among the contenders, the electoral situation reflects a shift to the right for Chile. As noted in an editorial in La Izquierda Diario — Chile, "There are no two expanding poles. What exists is an asymmetrical polarization, where the Right advances and the institutional Left moderates. While the Right grows bolder, intensifies its rhetoric, and occupies political space, the Broad Front and the Communist Party moderate. They adopt the language of “order,” abandon their program, and embrace the priorities of the business sector under the guise of the “responsibility of governing.” Thus, the governing Left paradoxically becomes the guarantor of the neoliberal stability it claims to want to “overcome. " Even the Wall Street Journal suggests that both Kast and Jara would provide stability for capital and solidify Chile as “an example of how institutions can withstand the extremes of right and left wing populism.” Jara has moderated her limited reform progPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Puerto Rico’s Old Military Wounds Are Being Reopened
The remilitarization of Puerto Rico has sparked divided reactions. Some, including the governor, frame it as a symbol of U.S. partnership and security. But for others, the ongoing buildup—including renewed presence of heavy equipment and reports that President Trump authorized covert CIA operations against Venezuela—raises fears that Puerto Rico could once again become a live-fire zone.
https://time.com/7332725/puerto-ricos-military-roosevelt-roads/
https://archive.ph/rlLDQ

‘Reckless and Irresponsible’: Trump Plans Deep Housing Cuts That Could Leave 200,000 Homeless
“By cutting aid for permanent housing by two-thirds next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support for most of the people the Continuum places in such housing nationwide, beginning as soon as January,” the Times added. “All are disabled—a condition of the aid—and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-housing-cuts

‘Red cup rebellion’: striking Starbucks baristas urge customers to stay away
More than a thousand Starbucks workers across the US walked off the job on Thursday in over 40 cities, marking one of the largest coordinated actions yet by the rapidly growing union movement inside the world’s largest coffee chain. The strike, timed to coincide with the company’s lucrative “red cup day” festivities, is designed to pressure Starbucks back to the bargaining table after months of stalled contract negotiations.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/14/starbucks-strike-red-cup-rebellion

THC gummies and drinks face ban under provision in government spending bill
Hemp, a derivative of the cannabis plant, was legalized in the 2018 Farm Bill. It created a loophole for THC to be sold in low doses and explode in the mainstream consumer market. The new ban tucked into the spending bill pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Problem With James Talarico’s Gambling Ties
There is one issue where Talarico’s positions are discordant with many other Christians, progressive or conservative. As Politico reported back in August, Talarico has received tens of thousands of dollars from a political action committee (PAC) backed by GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson. Although Adelson is perhaps best known for her Israel advocacy, her and her late husband’s wealth is tied up in casinos. And it was the Texas Sands PAC, which is working hard to expand legal gambling in Texas, that gave Talarico $59,000 from February through December of 2024. That made the PAC Talarico’s largest financial supporter during his time in the legislature last year. The likely reason why they are backing him is that Talarico is an ardent supporter of legalizing casino gambling in Texas. He voted in favor of a bill that would’ve put the question to Texas voters through a constitutional amendment. While Talarico has been a rising star in progressive circles, his support for expanding legal gambling has alarmed advocates who see it as irreconcilable with his stated values. “The one word that comes to mind to describe his position would be hypocrisy,” said Les Bernal, the executive director of Stop Predatory Gambling, a national group that advocates against legal gambling. “If he [is] studying the Gospel, he must have missed the reading where Jesus says ‘Love others like I love you.’ Because casino gambling especially is a prime example of loving yourself more than your neighbor because it’s a business based on greed, manipulation, and exploitation.”
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/talarico-christian-progressive-gambling-donor

The Inside Story of How the Green Party Turned Red
When I joined the Scottish Green party in 2001, the Greens had around 6,000 members across their three UK parties (in Scotland, England and Wales, and Northern Ireland). Recently, roughly the same number joined in one day. In England and Wales alone, The Green party has overtaken the Tories with a record 150,000 members – two and a half times the number it had when Zack Polanski announced he was running for leader in May. Much credit for this membership explosion goes to Polanski, with his easy charisma, willingness to embrace controversy and clear, leftwingPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US designates four European anti-fascist groups as terrorist threats
In a public statement on Thursday, the state department said it would designate Antifa Ost in Germany, the Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, and two organisations in Greece – Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense – as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists … conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks”. … “Groups affiliated with this movement ascribe to revolutionary anarchist or Marxist ideologies, including anti-Americanism, ‘anti-capitalism’ and anti-Christianity, using these to incite and justify violent assaults domestically and overseas,” the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/us-antifa-terrorist-designation

Rubio instructs US diplomats to consider obesity as a cause for rejecting visas
Rubio’s guidance is a relatively strict interpretation of the federal government’s “public charge” rule. That rule bars prospective immigrants from entering the country if they are deemed likely to later require public assistance, such as Supplemental Security Income and funding from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. “Self-sufficiency has been a longstanding principle of U.S. immigration policy, and the public charge ground of inadmissibility has been a part of our immigration law for more than 100 years,” the Nov. 6 cable states.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/state-department-visas-diabetes-obesity

Health care tax credits are set to expire, raising costs for millions
That means low- and middle-income households that previously qualified for the tax credits would likely see their ACA premiums more than double next year, rising from an average of $888 in 2025 to $1,904 in 2026, according to a KFF analysis.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-affordable-care-act-premium-tax-credits-what-next/
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Priorities on the international front: Ahead of the Communist Party’s forthcoming Congress, KEVAN NELSON takes a look at the global issues of war, peace and imperialism that will be up for discussion among comrades this weekend
IN 1924, the 6th Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain made “pledges of solidarity with the struggling colonial workers and promises the fullest possible assistance in the development of their struggle for freedom. It appreciates it as an immediate duty to denounce and expose the treacherous conduct of the Labour government in this country. This government has since its accession to office not merely allowed but excused and condoned the shooting down and massacre of colonial workers. Thousands of workers are in gaol in Egypt and India and the Labour government does nothing.” This weekend, 101 years on at the 58th Congress of the Communist Party, similar criticisms will echo through time as delegates condemn the complicity of today’s Labour government with the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza and its pre-eminent role in Nato’s drive to war. Typically, the Congress will have a substantial international character with an array of delegates and visitors from sister communist and workers’ parties. Invitations to Congress have been accepted by Ofer Cassif, a communist member of the parliament (Knesset) in Israel and Bassam al-Sahli the general secretary of the Palestinian People’s Party who will give first-hand accounts of resistance to Israel’s war machine and occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priorities-international-front

How the US Intervened to Sabotage Angola’s Independence
November 11, 2025, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Angola’s independence, ending more than five centuries of Portuguese domination. The independence struggle had been long and bloody, marked by outside intervention that turned Angola into a Cold War battleground. In this regard, Angola was not alone. In the aftermath of World War II, African independence movements sprang up in French, British, and Belgian colonies, where civilian populations had been forced to support the European war effort. In exchange for their sacrifices, they demanded political rights, better living and working conditions, and eventually coPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Puerto Ricans Continue Protests Against US Militarism and War Threats
Tuesday’s protest was also held in honor of Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal, a Puerto Rican revolutionary who was found dead in a Florida prison—where he was serving a six-month sentence for opposing the US Navy occupation and bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico—on November 11, 1979. While US authorities said Rodríguez killed himself, many critics believe he was assassinated.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-military-buildup-puerto-rico

Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds
The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal – a group investigating violations in Central America – says conditions at El Salvador’s sprawling “terrorist continent center” (Cecot) breached the UN’s standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners. It cites “inhumane prison conditions, including prolonged incommunicado detention, inadequate food” and other shortcomings.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/venezuelans-el-salvador-trump-torture-report

Former officer pleads guilty to mistreating prisoner paralyzed in Connecticut police van
Cox, 39, who did not attend the New Haven Superior Court hearing, was left paralyzed from the chest down on June 19, 2022, when the police van he was riding in without a seat belt braked hard, sending him head-first into a metal partition while his hands were cuffed behind his back. He had been arrested on charges of threatening a woman with a gun, which were later dismissed.
https://apnews.com/article/prisoner-paralyzed-connecticut-police-e1884dfee43764185507290943b52ca3

Judge to release hundreds detained by ICE in Chicago area
A federal judge on Wednesday said he could order the release of hundreds of people detained by ICE in the Chicago area in the coming days, yet another legal setback to Operation Midway Blitz. The judge ordered 13 detainees be rPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

PFLP Makes Statement at the 34th Session of the Arab National Congress
We will not surrender. The struggle will continue until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine, the end of the zionist genocide regime, and the punishment of war criminals. The answer to brutality and genocide is not surrender, but more steadfastness and resistance. Despite the fires of genocide and the moaning of wounds, the message of Palestine remains present, from the Gaza of Dignity, West Bank, occupied interior, and Al-Quds, carrying the voice of our heroic prisoners, including the leader Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, and the voice of the families of martyrs, the wounded, and the displaced, children and women, and those remaining steadfast in tents and shelters, or standing firm on the rubble of their homes. We meet at a pivotal historical moment when the attack on Palestine and the peoples of our nation intensifies, and our national responsibility to protect the nation’s identity and its liberation project grows, and we meet to renew the covenant on the will for struggle and resistance against the zionist enemy, which was, still is, and will remain an enemy of every Arab person, and against the war criminals and those who align with them.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22535/

Cuba’s Role in Angola Changed the Course of African History
The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a major impact on the country’s history, beating back a South African invasion and denying Pretoria the opportunity to bring its local allies to power. It also left its mark on the region as a whole: Nelson Mandela credited the Cuban victory over the South African army in 1988 with hastening the fall of apartheid. When Cuba’s armed forces became openly involved in Angola in November 1975, there was a widespread assumption that Cuba was a Soviet “proxy.” Those who knew Cuba well argued that it was not that simple. They questioned whether it could really be described as a client state, and whether Moscow was really interested in becoming embroiled (indirectly) in the internal conflicts of Southern Africa. In due course, further research shifted attention away from an interpretation that owed much to the hegemonic Cold War perspective. It slowly became clear that CPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The FBI Is Trying to Unmask the Registrar Behind Archive.Today
About a week ago, the X account belonging to Archive posted a link to a federal subpoena, which is dated October 30th. The subpoena, which was originally spotted by a German news site, is for a Canadian web registration company called Tucows, and demands that the company turn over “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” as well as an extensive list of other information related to the “customer behind archive.today.”
https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-is-trying-to-unmask-the-registrar-behind-archive-today-2000682868

California police intervene as ICE agent in plain clothes points gun at woman=
The officer stopped when he saw a man exit one of the vehicles and point a firearm at the other driver, the agency said in a statement. He did not initially know the identity of the armed man, who was dressed in plain clothes and soon provided credentials showing he was an ICE agent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/california-police-intervene-ice-agent

California Supreme Court strikes down warning on LAPD citizen complaint forms
The high court ruled 6-1 on Monday in favor of the city of Los Angeles and against the union that represents its police officers in finding that the admonishment describing penalties for filing false has the potential to deter “citizens from filing truthful (or at least not knowingly false) complaints of police misconduct”.
https://apnews.com/article/general-news-law-enforcement-california-los-angeles-courts-060a5d57d1aa8fb6fa79f3b8446382b6

Kansas county to pay more than $3m over police raiding local newspaper
A rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay out more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said on Tuesday. Eric MeyePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

(Chapo Trap House) 985 - The Murder Inc. Doctrine feat. Greg Grandin (11/10/25)
As we inch closer to war with Venezuela, historian Greg Grandin returns to Chapo for a history lesson about the War on Drugs as well as Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. We also talk about the US’s long-running economic interests and petty feuds in Latin America, particularly regarding the region’s oil supplies. We then briefly speculate about just how bad and chaotic a regime change operation against Venezuela might be for the US and Latin America.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/985-the-murder-inc-doctrine-feat-greg-grandin-111025

CP of Greece, The provocations and anti-KKE slanders will fail once again
The so-called World Anti-Imperialist Platform (WAP) —the apologists for the Russian and Chinese bourgeoisie in their imperialist competition with the US and the Euro-Atlantic camp— are once again exposed. At a time when they indulge into fantasies about “anti-imperialist axes” and “anti-fascist fronts”, they remain silent about the fascist meeting of the “Paladins” held a few weeks ago in St. Petersburg. Under the official auspices of the Russian state and the ruling United Russia party, fascist scum from all over the world assembled there, including members of the Nazi Golden Dawn party. Led by the well-known anti-KKE obsessive Patelis, theoretical instructor of the WAP, they know believe that they have found an opportunity to launch a vulgar offensive against the KKE and the parties with which it cooperates. This time, they are targeting the Communist Party of Venezuela and, through it, the KKE, repeating the absurd claim that the CP of Venezuela (and, by extension, the KKE) is aligned with the forces of María Corina Machado — forces that call on the US to intervene militarily to overthrow the Maduro government.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-The-provocations-and-anti-KKE-slanders-will-fail-once-again/

Democrats Caved in the Shutdown Fight. Unions Let Them.
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Trump threatens to cut air traffic controllers' pay
"For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU," Trump wrote on Truth Social. He said he'd recommend bonuses of $10,000 to each controller who didn't take any time off during the shutdown.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/10/trump-air-traffic-controllers-pay-shutdown
https://archive.ph/R443C

Male Drivers Sue Uber and Lyft For Sex Discrimination Over Women-Only Ride-Hailing Feature
Lawyers acting for the plaintiffs argue that male drivers “are discriminated against and receive fewer and different rides than they otherwise would absent the policy.” They contend that the policy “reinforces the gender stereotype that men are more dangerous than women.”
https://time.com/7332356/uber-lawsuit-sex-discrimination-lyft/
https://archive.ph/ZiLW1

Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown
Democrats are seething after news emerged on Sunday that eight members of their Senate caucus had collaborated with Republicans on crafting a compromise to end the longest government shutdown in US history, without winning any healthcare concessions that they had sought. But one name is coming in for more opprobrium than any other: Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who had led the Democrats’ weeks-long stand against reopening the government without an extension of tax credits that lower premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/10/chuck-schumer-resign-calls-shutdown-vote-democrats

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
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The Great October Socialist Revolution inspires our struggle for a world free from class exploitation and imperialist wars
108 years ago, the victory of the October Revolution demonstrated the power of revolutionary class struggle and paved the way for a society free from exploitation, insecurity, poverty, unemployment and war. It became a turning point in the history of humanity, brought to the fore a superior form of social organization, socialism–communism, which is radically opposed to previous exploitative formations. The socialization of the means of production, centrally planned economy and worker participation represented a profound qualitative leap in social development, delivering significant social achievements for the people. Today, as humanity bleeds and is torn apart by imperialist wars and interventions, the first Decree On Peace issued by the new revolutionary power of the Soviets symbolically illuminates the path that the peoples must forge through their struggle.
https://www.eurcomact.org/m-article/The-Great-October-Socialist-Revolution-inspires-our-struggle-for-a-world-free-from-class-exploitation-and-imperialist-wars/

Scotland, NATO, and imperialism: Is the SNP a “threat to national security”?
The media this week, particularly in Scotland, has been ablaze with claims from – not one, not two, but three – members of Starmer’s cabinet that the elected government in Scotland is a “threat to national security”, due to its position on Labour’s militarism. Such statements were said by defence secretary John Healey in the House of Commons on Monday, again by Scotland secretary Douglas Alexander, and yet again by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy. Lammy’s remarks came across as particularly patronising. Attempting to calm the situation, the Tottenham Labour MP tried to clarify that his pals’ comments were not aimed at ordinary Scots, but at their leaders. Then, attempting to address concerns that he was perhaps not in a position – from his London constituency – to speak on behalf of Scottish people, Lammy stated that he is actually 5 percent Scottish! For anyone not deluded by their recent 23andMe results, it is clear that claims by Westminster politicians that thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US to demand countries share data on ‘pathogens with epidemic potential’ in return for health aid
A draft template seen by the Guardian, to be used for memorandums of understanding with partner countries, offers funding to tackle diseases such as malaria, TB, HIV and polio, as well as for activities such as surveillance, and laboratory systems and electronic health records. It suggests that countries will be expected to gradually take over funding these areas themselves over the course of the five-year agreements.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/08/us-countries-share-data-pathogens-epidemic-potential-health-aid

Trump tells Senate Republicans to send federal health insurance money ‘directly to the people’
President Donald Trump proposed a compromise on health insurance payments, calling on Republicans to send federal payments that would go to insurers under the Affordable Care Act directly to Americans to bring an end to the government shutdown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/trump-republicans-health-insurance.html

South Korean solar firm cuts pay and hours for Georgia workers as US officials detain imports
Qcells, a unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions, said Friday that it will also lay off 300 workers from staffing agencies at its plants in Dalton and Cartersville, both northwest of Atlanta. The company says U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been detaining imported components at ports on suspicion that they contain materials that may have been made with forced labor in China, meaning it can’t run its solar panel assembly lines at full strength.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-solar-plant-qcells-furloughs-china-labor-f49d0579e0584d689f1feec36ff16ad1

Trump calls for ACA subsidies to be sent to consumers
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Inside ICE’s Plans For A Bounty Hunter Army
In February, at the start of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, news broke that a group of military contractors was circulating a blueprint for mass deportations, to be carried out by private contractors. Led by Erik Prince, Trump ally and founder of the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater, the group proposed (among other ideas) that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) create a “skip tracing team” that would send out private contractors to hunt down immigrants targeted for deportation, per reporting at the time by Politico. Now, there are indications ICE is carrying out those plans. Last month, The Lever revealed that ICE had signed a $7 million contract with defense contractor SOS International for “skip tracing services.” SOS International, also known as SOSi, has long done business with the federal government, including working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan — and has business ties to one of the military contractors whose name was listed alongside Prince’s in the proposal. It was the first time, per online federal procurement databases, that an ICE contract description contained the phrase “skip tracing,” a term usually associated with debt collection and bounty hunting. There was little further detail about the services SOSi would provide to Trump’s immigration enforcers. The contract — with its eerie callback to the Prince deportation blueprint — appears not to be a fluke. Several days later, ICE signed another “skip tracing” contract, this time worth up to $33.5 million, with international debt collector Global Recovery Group LLC.
https://www.levernews.com/inside-ices-plans-for-a-bounty-hunter-army/

Trump and the War in Ukraine: A Volatile Balancing Act Between Moscow, Kyiv, and Brussels
In just one week, the U.S. president threatened Putin by announcing the possible delivery of Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine if he continued the war. A few days later, he spoke with him at length by telephone, just before a tense meeting with Zelensky at the White House. After this meeting, Trump announced that he would ultimately not send the Tomahawks to Ukraine in order to avoid an escalation with Russia, and immediately announced a meeting with Putin in Budapest. Five days later, the U.S. Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments
The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown. After that request to block was denied, the Trump administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to block the order to fully fund Snap food aid payments.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/white-house-snap-november-court-order

Supreme Court allows Trump to end passport gender marker policy
The 6-3 decision by the court's conservative majority overrides two lower court decisions and the claims of transgender Americans that the policy change is illegal, discriminatory and exposes them to real-world harms, particularly while traveling.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-end-33-year-passport/story?id=127273370

== Cornell Becomes Latest University to Submit to Trump’s ‘Extortion’ Over Student Protests =
Cornell University became the latest school to cave to demands from the Trump administration on Friday, inking a deal that would restore $250 million in unpaid research funds stripped by the federal government as part of its crusade against higher education and efforts to punish schools that allowed students to freely express pro-Palestine views.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cornell-trump-extortion

Federal judge permanently blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland
“Since that brief span of a few days in June, the protests outside the Portland ICE facility have been predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence, largely between protesters and counter-protesters,” the judge wrote in her 106-page order, “this Court concludes that even giving great deference to the President’s determination, the President did not have a lawful basis tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tuesday’s Election Result Is a Rebuke of Trump More than an Enthusiastic Embrace of Democrats
The election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York have put wind in the sails of a Democratic Party that has been on the defensive since Trump’s re-election. For the more moderate Democratic Party pundits and politicians, the victories confirm their belief that a populist, anti-woke platform is the way to go. Spanberger opened her victory speech with the assertion that her campaign “sent a message to our neighbors and across the country…and the whole world, that in 2025 Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship.” Sherrill, for her part, centered her acceptance speech on “prosperity,” tying appeals to America’s “democratic” tradition to people’s need for economic security. She added that the election shows that “we’re not going to give into our darker impulses,” without naming the transphobic, racist, and anti-immigrant vitriol which defined much of her Republican opponent’s campaign and Trump’s politics. Democratic Representative and House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, who two days ago told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that the future of the Democratic wasn’t Zohran Mamdani, but the House Democratic caucus, said on Tuesday night that Democrats “won all over the country talking about the affordability crisis.” An ABC News article confirms that the races in Virginia and New Jersey centered on the issue of affordability, but the discourse about how to resolve it is much different in these states than in New York.
https://www.leftvoice.org/tuesdays-election-result-is-a-rebuke-of-trump-more-than-an-enthusiastic-embrace-of-democrats/

Italian Fascists’ Love Affair With Israel Started Long Before Giorgia Meloni
Few nations have such a disconnect between the public and the state when it comes to Palestine as Italy. The Italian government is one of just three – the others are Germany and the United States – that have continued to supply major conventional weapons to Israel since 2020. Alongside attack helicopters, naval guns and parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets, Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has continued to provide diplomatic cover to her Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, refusing to take even the symbolic step ofPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

YouTube Removed Hundreds of Videos of Israeli Human Rights Violations to Comply With Trump Sanctions
In compliance with a Trump administration effort to punish critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, YouTube has deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian rights groups, wiping several hundred videos documenting Israeli human rights violations in the process.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/youtube-deletes-videos-israel

US Starbucks workers prepare to strike if contract is not finalized by next week
Unionized Starbucks baristas voted to authorize an open-ended strike ahead of Starbucks’s high-traffic holiday season, announced Starbucks Workers United on Wednesday. The union said workers are prepared to strike if a contract is not finalized by 13 November, which is the company’s Red Cup Day, and strike actions could hit more than 25 cities and escalate if there is a lack of progress.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/05/starbucks-baristas-union-strike-contract

FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown
The closure has also raised concerns about already thin staffing among air traffic controllers, the FAA said. Insufficient staffing at some FAA facilities has disrupted some flights since Oct. 1. Earlier this week, Duffy told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he could “shut the whole airspace down” if the shutdown drags on.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/faa-cuts-flight-capacity-shutdown.html

Chicago day care worker detained by immigration agents at drop-off time for children
The employee ran from a vehicle into the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center after officers pulled into the parking lot right after her, Alderman Matt Martin said, citing witness accounts. The employee was detained at the entry while telling authorities she has papers, he said. Authorities went inside to question several people around 7 a.m., when the facility opened, according to witnesses.
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984 - The Killing Fields feat. Jasper Nathaniel (11/3/25) (Chapo Trap House)
Jasper Nathaniel is back with another report from the occupied West Bank. He tells us about a band of West Bank settlers attacking him and locals in the olive fields of Turmus’ayya, including an old woman who was beaten unconscious on camera. He then talks about the Israeli military and intelligence’s response to the crime, the footage actually breaking through to the mainstream Anglophone press, and various U.S. Senators’ response to the attack. Finally, he closes with speculation about Trump and Netanyahu’s refusal to sign on to an official West Bank annexation.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/984-the-killing-fields-feat-jasper-nathaniel-11325

Bill Gates Wants Us to Do Less About the Climate Crisis
When Bill Gates speaks about climate change, the world listens. That’s why his new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” is so troubling. Gates argues there’s “too much” emphasis on “near-term emissions goals,” ostensibly for humanitarian reasons. He says we should focus instead on the more serious issues of “poverty and disease,” in part because technology will solve the most severe climate impacts. Yet the points in his essay are neither “tough” nor “true,” but belie the same ideology that has sabotaged climate action for half a century: a refusal to confront power. When billionaires preach tech fixes and innovation, they’re not offering hard truths; they’re just aiming to avoid regulation and protect their freedom to pollute and profit. Gates’s advocacy for breakthroughs — fusion, carbon capture, “clean” cement — as a way to reconcile rising living standards with a stable planet is just a rebrand of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite myth. If salvation lies in carbon capture or advanced reactors, then drilling today becomes an act of faith in tomorrow’s miracles. Consider Occidental Petroleum. The oil major is building “Stratos,” a vast carbon capture operation in Texas touted as a model of “climate progress.” Yet its CEO has been explicit: the technology’s purpose is to “preserve our industry over time,” giving it “a license to continue to operate for the next 60, 70, 80 years.” These schemes aren’t designed to reduce emissions — they’re designed to ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84
Dick Cheney, a chief architect of the US invasion of Iraq and broader “war on terror” that has killed millions of people since its inception, has died at 84, his family announced in a statement Tuesday. Cheney was best known for his central role in the administration of former President George W. Bush, under whom Cheney served as vice president.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dick-cheney-dies

UAW demands job security as VW workers in Chattanooga vote to authorize strike
There's new reaction Thursday after members of the United Auto Workers voted to authorize a strike at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant. The vote gives union leaders the power to call for a strike.
https://newschannel9.com/news/local/uaw-demands-job-security-as-vw-workers-in-chattanooga-vote-to-authorize-strike

US citizen shot by ICE in California as Illinois detainees sue over inhumane conditions
According to his lawyers, last Thursday in Ontario, California, US citizen Carlos Jimenez, 25, was shot in the back by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after he tried to warn them that children would soon be gathering at a nearby school bus stop. Jimenez was on his way to work at a food bank when he came upon ICE agents conducting a traffic stop near the bus stop.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/04/jpiy-n04.html

Maine Ballot Measure Is Testing the Power of Graham Platner’s Volunteer Army
In an unusual turn of events, arguably the most well-organized opposition to the ballot question has come not from the Democratic Party, but from Graham Platner’s upstart Senate campaign—which is still less than three months old. By the end of this weekend, more than 3,000 volunteers across 23 locations had attended an organizing training event put on by Platner’s campaign. Platner, an oysterman and military veteran from eastern Maine, is vying for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen.
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EU backs Czech Republic’s anti-communist crackdown — KKE exposes hypocrisy
A new escalation of the anti-communist offensive in the European Union is underway, this time with the Czech government preparing an operation to further criminalize the dissemination, support and defense of communist ideology — and the EU proving yet again its hypocrisy and tolerance for such reactionary measures. The alarming developments were raised in the European Parliament by Kostas Papadakis, MEP of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), who exposed the Czech authorities’ plan to equate communist ideas with so-called “totalitarianism” and to apply harsh criminal sanctions.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/11/eu-backs-czech-republics-anti-communist-crackdown-kke-exposes-hypocrisy.html

Money, mercenaries and mayhem: How Israel and UAE are investing in regional chaos
In the flickering twilight of El-Fasher, a child clutches a soot-covered doll beside a pile of ashes where her home once stood. Mothers huddle in the corridors of the last functioning hospital, terrified that the next drone strike will claim the wounded they tend. Fathers dig graves with their hands, burying children in the courtyards of shattered schools. For 18 months, the city endured a siege that stripped it of food, water, and life. When its gates finally fell, it was not liberation that entered. It was annihilation. Witnesses speak of men dragged from their homes, women and children executed in the streets, hospitals shelled while terrified civilians sheltered inside. Human Rights Watch has documented scenes of mass killings, burning, and looting. The UN has described the assault as a "campaign of extermination". And behind the force that carried out this atrocity stands a patron whose fingerprints stain every front of Sudan’s war: the United Arab Emirates. If the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are the visible executioners, the hand that directs them is Abu Dhabi’s. It has poured cash, weapons, and political cover into the war machine of RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo - known as Hemeti - igniting a conflict that has torn Sudan apart.
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Echoes of Obama Libya Strikes as Trump Argues Boat Bombings Are Immune From War Powers Law
The Washington Post reported Saturday that “T. Elliot Gaiser, head of the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel, made his remarks to a small group of lawmakers this week amid signs that the president may be planning to escalate the military campaign in the region, including potentially hitting targets within Venezuela.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-boat-strikes-libya

Education Department sued over new student loan forgiveness rule
The rule, published Friday, limits eligibility for PSLF — which forgives the remaining balance on federal student loans for eligible public service workers after ten years — as part of the broader crackdown on what the Trump administration calls "anti-American activists." he Education Department outlined those actions as "supporting terrorism and aiding and abetting illegal immigration."
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-student-loans-education-department-letitia-james
https://archive.ph/CUdEa

Top FDA official quits amid inquiry into ‘serious concerns’ over his conduct
The departure came the same day that a drugmaker connected to one of Tidmarsh’s former business associates filed a lawsuit alleging that he made “false and defamatory statements” during his time at the FDA. The lawsuit, brought by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, alleges that Tidmarsh used his FDA position to pursue a “longstanding personal vendetta” against the chair of the company’s board of directors, Kevin Tang.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/fda-official-resigns-george-tidmarsh

US to pay reduced food aid benefits, but warns of weeks or months delay
USDA official warned in the filing that at least some states, which administer SNAP benefits, would need weeks to months to make system changes that would allow them to calculate and issue tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Liberal Capitalism’s Long Authoritarian Streak
We’re coming up, in two years, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Albert Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Some of you may know of Hirschman as one of the main characters in that not-so-good, pulpy Netflix series Transatlantic, which depicts the efforts of Hirschman and others to rescue European Jewish intellectuals from the Nazis in France. If you’re a political scientist or sociologist, you may know of Hirschman for his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. If you’re a theorist, you may know his Rhetoric of Reaction. If you’re an economist or a Latin Americanist, you might know of his work in development economics. But, for me, Hirschman will always be the author of The Passions and the Interests. Its main thesis is that early-modern writers, from Machiavelli to David Hume, saw in the idea of interests — initially understood as a reasoned form of passion, later as a strictly economic pursuit of money and material well-being — as a counter to dangerous forms of political passion: glory, heroism, virtue, excessive civic-mindedness. It’s a wonderful little book, which in many ways has inspired some of the counterarguments that I am making in my book King Capital. But there’s a little-noticed element in Hirschman’s book, which I only just stumbled upon in a recent rereading. Given when the book was written, in 1977, and given Hirschman’s extensive involvement in Latin American politics and economics and his many efforts to save Latin American Marxists and leftists who were being threatened by right-wing goons and governments in the 1970s, that subplot seems worth mentioning.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/liberal-capitalism-authoritarianism-neoliberalism-hirschman

Amazon Web Services crash: who owns the internet?
In the early hours of 20 October, a simple error disrupted the operations of a data centre hub for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Northern Virginia. The ripple effect over the next few hours caused global outages to services as diverse as banking and real-time trading, tools for office management, social media, and even advanced manufacturing. In all, a total of 2,000 large companies were impacted, including a number of BrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’
His bid to lead Local 623 came up short in 2016. But in 2020, the married father of four became the first Black man to ever lead the union, which represents workers at companies including UPS and Greyhound. Now Hooker is running to replace O’Brien at the top of one of the most influential unions in the US, due to frustrations over his decision to align with Trump, the 2023 UPS contract as UPS recently reported cutting 48,000 jobs, and allegations of intimidation against criticizing O’Brien’s administration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/teamsters-union-leadership-trump

Protesters rally in San Francisco over detention of British journalist Sami Hamdi
Hamdi, a reporter and political commentator, was detained on Sunday at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as he was preparing to fly to Florida for a speaking engagement. He had been on a US speaking tour when authorities transferred him to a detention facility in southern California.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protesters-rally-san-francisco-over-detention-sami-hamdi

Poll shows Zohran Mamdani's lead in NYC mayoral race narrowing during final weekend of early voting
Meanwhile, a new poll shows the frontrunner's lead could be narrowing. The Atlas poll, which survey over 1,500 people through Oct. 30, shows Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani with 40% of the vote, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo at 34% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at 24%.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-mayors-race-latest-poll-early-voting/

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed
The group allegedly discussed carrying out an attack around Halloween, referring to “pumpkin day,” according to one of the people. The other person briefed on the investigation confirmed that there had been a “pumpkin” reference. HoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Sudanese Communist Party: Statement on the Massacres by Rapid Support Forces in Bara and El Fasher
Our Party stands clearly and decisively against the horrifying massacres being committed against civilians in the cities of El Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur; a stance that does not accept ambiguity or justification. The Rapid Support Forces continue to perpetrate systematic violence against unarmed civilians: field executions, arbitrary arrests, looting and destruction of property, mass displacement, and forcing residents to flee… and more, as documented and confirmed by reports from the United Nations, human rights organizations, and the media. This hellish, systematic violence is the result of all the wars our country has endured, marked by barbarity and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. Impunity has never been an exception; rather, it is a central reason for the recurrence of these crimes. The ongoing absence of accountability has recreated an environment that allows the return of war crimes and genocide against the populations of cities and villages as soon as the regime's forces retreat, as seen in Bara and El Fasher.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/sudanese-communist-party-statement-on-massacres-by-rapid-support-forces-in-bara-and-el-fasher.html

Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
Despite securing a sit-down with Putin in the summer of 2013, they did not succeed in convincing Russia to support Assad’s ouster, but their negotiations set the stage for U.S.-Russia cooperation on disarmament of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal a few months later. Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., wrote in his memoir that Israel’s diplomatic leadership was told to “avoid being perceived as a player” in Syria. Clandestine actors sought to shape agendas in Moscow and Washington, while Israeli officials denied involvement and used the media to legitimize “red lines” for air strikes inside Syria. After their failed attempt to remove Assad, Barak and Epstein sought to leverage the Russian channel again in 2015, as Barak pushed for U.S. strikes on Iran and rejPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Starbucks workers hold strike vote amid anger over pay and conditions
Butit has yet to obtain a contract. Starbucks Workers United claims company management started to “majorly stonewall” the union; Starbucks claims the union walked away from the bargaining table. A strike authorization vote called by Starbucks Workers United began last Friday, 24 October, and will continue until Sunday 2 November. About 70 pickets have been planned in 60 cities across the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/starbucks-workers-strike-vote

Trump administration ordered to fund SNAP benefits during government shutdown
Roughly 42 million Americans are set to lose their supplemental food benefits Saturday — and it's unclear if Friday's ruling will be enacted fast enough to guarantee recipients get their money in time. Judge John James McConnell Jr. ruled Friday that the administration must fund SNAP, and asked for progress report by Monday, according to news reports.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump
https://archive.ph/8Kou7

Tennessee officials drop charges against man jailed over Charlie Kirk meme
Whereas many people across the US lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as one of the few instances where such online speech has led to criminal prosecution. His arrest – on a charge of threatening mass violence at a school – alarmed free speech advocates, who said the Perry county sheriff, Nick Weems, had targeted Bushart because of his political views. Bushart was released on Wednesday after prosecutors sought to dismiss the charge.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/tennessee-man-jailed-charlie-kirk-meme

Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers
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Episode 499: Libbing Out (TrueAnon)
We talk to ACLU bigwig Ben Wizner about Trump's war on law firms, his shadow battle with the judiciary, NSPM-7, Mahmoud Khalil, and more
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/libbing-out

Venezuela Case: Oil, Capital, and Class Struggle
Examining how control over oil resources fuels imperialist ambitions and what a socialist perspective offers as an alternative Venezuela stands once again at the crossroads of imperialist aggression and national resistance. Its oil-rich soil − potentially a foundation of social progress and independence − remains the object of fierce contest between foreign capital, domestic oligarchs, and bureaucratic interests. While this wealth should belong to the Venezuelan people, it continues to be treated as a commodity for global profiteers. Recently, Donald Trump and U.S.-backed figures like Maria Corina Machado have stepped into the spotlight, pushing privatization schemes and openly aligning with corporate interests. Their rhetoric of “freedom” and “democracy” conceals a brutal reality: a plan to hand over Venezuela’s national wealth to imperialist monopolies, deepening inequality and exploiting the working class. In this renewed struggle over oil, capital, and sovereignty, the stakes could not be higher − not only for Venezuela but for all workers confronting imperialist domination worldwide.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/venezuela-case-oil-capital-and-class-struggle.html

Big Employers Using AI to Decimate White Collar Jobs; What Happens When Real Incomes, Employment, and Social Compacts Erode?
Seemmingly contradictory processes are at work. We may have reached peak AI, at least in terms of growth of use of the seemingly dominant type, large language models, which are conflated with “generative AI” (sticklers are encouraged to clear up fine points in comments). Several key growth measures are stalling out or even falling. Yet a wave of igh profile employers like Amazon, UPS, and Walmart announcing of big headcount cuts, citing AI implementation as the driver of the firings, says AI uptake is gaining steam. What gives? And more important, evPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
NPR has obtained the draft text of a proposed rule that would prohibit federal Medicaid reimbursement for medical care provided to transgender patients younger than age 18. It also prohibits reimbursement through the Children's Health Insurance Program or CHIP for patients under age 19.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5588655/transgender-trump-medicare-medicaid-gender-affirming-care

Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit, cutting jury amount nearly in half
A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago. The new amount is roughly half the $667 million that a jury had awarded to the pipeline company that brought the claims, Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access.
https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-greenpeace-dakota-access-pipeline-lawsuit-4c5430585daccda6458181fd91662593

Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester
Martin, 55 and Smith, 54, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and injury to a NPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Interviews with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
[Video] https://odysee.com/@richardmedhurst:3/inside-the-mind-of-a-militant-an:f
[Text] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22318/

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise
In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current parliamentary representation at 71, ahead of the traditional parties of the left, the Socialist Party and Communist Party. The personality most identified with it is Jean Luc Melenchon, who has run for president three times, the last time in 2022, when he gathered 21.9 percent of the votes, finishing third after second-placer Marine Le Pen of National Rally and Emmanuel Macron. La France Insoumise describes its orientation as democratic socialist and ecosocialist. The following is a composite interview. When he visited Paris in July 2025, Walden Bello interviewed some of the leaders of LFI, including Nadege Abomangoli, vice president of the National Assembly; Aurelie Trouve, chairwoman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Assembly; and members of parliament Arnaud Le Gall, Aurelien Tache, and Aurelien Saintoul. This was followed in September 2025 by an email interview with LFI leader Jean Luc Melenchon (JLM).
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/29/france-in-crisis-an-interview-with-jean-luc-melenchon-and-la-france-insoumise/

Caerphilly by-election: A harbinger of things to come
On 23 October, residents of Caerphilly, a town in South Wales, turned out in record numbers to vote in a by-election for the Senedd, the devolved Welsh Parliament. Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle was elected, on an unprecedented turnout of over 50 percent. While just a single constituency, this result has far-reaching implications. It is often remarked that the Welsh Labour Party is the most successful political party in history. Labour’s dominance in Wales has remained practically unrivaled for over a century – uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
For Israel, losing control of its data to authorities overseas was a significant concern. So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators. To clinch the lucrative contract, Google and Amazon agreed to the so-called winking mechanism, according to leaked documents seen by the Guardian, as part of a joint investigation with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

Pro-Palestinian students threaten to sue US university amid antisemitism definition controversy
“As a public university, the law is crystal clear that GMU may not censor its students or student organizations on the basis of viewpoint,” the letter added, demanding the university allow SJP to repost the video by Friday. “GMU cannot utilize the veneer of anti-discrimination in order to censor student speech that may be disfavored by the administration.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/george-mason-university-virginia-ihra-antisemitism-definition

spending $5M to slam House Dems over political violence
The ads vary by district, but accuse Democratic incumbents of voting against funding for law enforcement and feeding into or not condemning political violence, according to the ones viewed first by Axios. Many feature images from the assassination attempt on President Trump, ammunition engaved with "anti-ICE," the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina and a clip of Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough saying "there has been left-wing violence."
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/house-republicans-ads-political-violence
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The Billion-Dollar Car Heist
Across the country, people are increasingly defaulting on their car loans — a particularly dire economic indicator because car loans are usually the last payment that Americans are willing to miss. As the economy stagnates and both cars and car insurance have become more expensive, new research from the consumer protection-focused nonprofit Consumer Federation of America shows that executives from top auto insurance companies are netting massive compensation packages. The average price for a new vehicle topped a record-breaking $50,000 in September. Meanwhile, auto loan delinquency rates are at all-time highs for those with subprime credit ratings — those with credit scores below 670 — doubling since 2021 to reach 6.43 percent. The default rate is now worse than during the last three recessions: the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Recession, and the dot-com bust. Unlike defaulting on a rent or a mortgage — where tenants and homeowners can have months of legal proceedings before they’re evicted — vehicles can be repossessed in a matter of days, leaving car-dependent Americans stranded.
https://www.levernews.com/the-billion-dollar-car-heist-no-ones-talking-about/

Trump’s Argentina “Rescue” Is Just Debt Colonialism
In early October, Donald Trump’s Treasury Department announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina — potentially doubling to $40 billion with private financing from Orix Capital, J.P. Morgan, and allied funds. The official story is that this is about “stabilizing Argentina’s economy.” But in reality, it’s about stabilizing a regime that serves imperial interests. Trump sold it as a “rescue.” Javier Milei, the self-styled anarcho-capitalist president of Argentina, celebrated Trump’s intervention as proof of the strength of the two governments’ relationship. What it really proves is that debt remains the most sophisticated weapon of domination the United States has ever invented. According to CNN en Español the bailout is tied to a free-trade framework opening Argentina’s strategic sectors — lithium, energy, agribusiness — to U.S. corporations. Behind the photo ops are deals to privatize public wealth and guarantee profits for the same financial institutions that fueled Argentina’s last crisis.
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US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
The officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity did not know how many members of the U.S. Defense Department had been asked to sign the agreements and did not offer further details on the scope of the NDAs. While the Defense Department has turned to NDAs from time to time since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary in January, the Pentagon's use of non-disclosure agreements specific to activities in Latin America has not been previously reported.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-officials-required-sign-ndas-tied-latin-america-mission-sources-say-2025-10-28/

Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently
United Parcel Service has disclosed about 48,000 job cuts this year as part of turnaround efforts, which arrive amid wider shifts in the company’s shipping outputs. … In September, Lufthansa Group said it would shed 4,000 jobs by 2030 — pointing to the adoption of artificial intelligence, digitalization and consolidating work among member airlines. … In May, Microsoft began began laying off about 6,000 workers across its workforce. And just months later, the tech giant said it would be cutting 9,000 positions — marking its biggest round of layoffs seen in more than two years.
https://apnews.com/article/layoffs-2025-amazon-ups-job-cuts-8413af9ac5b434b092ed76d6fa6cd196

The quiet collapse of America's reproductive health safety net
In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor. Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.
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On the 2025 Malagasy Protests
On September 25th, 2025, Madagascar joined the growing multitude of countries currently undergoing widespread protests fueled by an accused uneven distribution of resources and encroaching government authoritarianism, leading to the deaths of at least 22 protestors at the hands of President Andry Rajoelina’s security forces and leaving as many as 100 non-lethally injured according to figures reported by the United Nations. Initially organised via social media platforms such as Facebook and Tiktok, the newly-formed Gen Z Mada cites recent youth-led movements in Nepal and Morocco as inspiration for their rebellion, which began in the capital city of Antananarivo and has since spread throughout the country. Madagascar’s rising unrest further exemplifies Gen Z’s unique approach in the context of the digital age to class struggle, revolution, and the lasting impacts of imperialism on national political stability.
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/10/23/on-the-2025-malagasy-protests-international/

The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Going to Grow Stronger: Review of Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism by Mauro Lubrano (Polity, 2025)
In August 2011, a mail bomb exploded at the Monterrey Institute for Technology and Higher Education in Mexico. Two scientists at the institute were injured — one mildly, escaping with light burns, the other more seriously, with shrapnel from the bomb piercing his chest and perforating his lung. At first, the Mexican authorities did not know who had carried out the attack. State Attorney General Alfredo Castillo Cervantes told the press that it might have been the action of a criminal gang, or perhaps a disgruntled student. Yet they soon realized that it had been a deliberate terrorist attack. The bombing formed part of a campaign against scientists involved in the development of nanotechnologies. The perpetrators called themselves the Individualists Tending Toward the Wild (ITS), a group that would go on to proudly adopt the label “eco-extremist.” The worldview espoused by the Individualists — “nature is good, civilization is evil” — sums up the ethos of a variety of groups and ideologies. Building on the legacy of figures like Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, they want to bring down tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Honduran immigrant dies while fleeing ICE, bringing raids death toll to three
Jose Castro Rivera was killed on Thursday morning after running onto a busy highway and being struck and fatally injured while trying to evade ICE agents, local authorities said. … The fatal incident took place on the busy Interstate 264 eastbound at the Military Highway interchange in Norfolk in south-east Virginia. The Virginia state police said they were not involved in the pursuit and the fatal crash remains under investigation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/honduran-immigrant-dies-trying-to-flee-ice

ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws
Exxon Mobil Corporation is suing the state of California over a pair of 2023 climate disclosure laws that the company says infringe upon its free speech rights, namely by forcing it to embrace the message that large companies are uniquely to blame for climate change. The oil and gas corporation based in Texas filed its complaint Friday in the U.S. Eastern District Court for California. It asks the court to prevent the laws from going into effect next year.
https://apnews.com/article/exxon-mobil-california-climate-d8a52052f881ed288864f27c28997300

Body cam shows Baltimore County officers stunned after gun scare was just a bag of chips
With guns drawn, Baltimore County Police surrounded a group of students after the Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders that a student had a gun. Body camera footage shows police detaining all of those students and then searching one of them. Though the student never had a gun. Instead, what Omnilert detected was a bag of chips.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/ai-gun-detection-system-kenwood-high-school-mistakes-a-bag-of-chips/

New Jersey officer stopped at ATM and pizzeria instead of investigating double-murder
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Gaza genocide: Why we seek to have a British-Israeli soldier prosecuted
As western leaders jostle and preoccupy themselves with US President Donald Trump’s so-called "peace plan", the media buzz has started looking to "what’s next", rather than reflecting on the 734 days of genocide Palestinians have endured. Trump’s plan is filled with red flags about eroding Palestinian agency, about neocolonial British-American control over Gaza, and about failing to stop Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire. These concerns are all vitally important, but equally important is accountability for the perpetrators of the genocide, from the most senior generals to the most junior foot soldier. That is why the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has applied for a court summons to prosecute a dual national British-Israeli soldier for allegedly enlisting in the Israel army, in violation of Section 4 of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870. The individual is believed to have served in an Israeli army unit on the Lebanese border before deployment to the Occupied West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-why-icjp-seeks-to-have-british-israeli-soldier-prosecuted

How UN Betrayal of West Papua Led to Genocide, Step by Step
The United Nations has recently come under attack from the Trump Administration and, much as it goes against the grain, it’s difficult to argue with real-estate-developer-cum-ambassador-Representative for U.N. Management and Reform [sic], Jeff Bartos: "Over 80 years, the UN has grown bloated, unfocused, too often ineffective, and sometimes even part of the problem. The UN’s failure to deliver on its core mandates is alarming and undeniable." Yet the problem isn’t really the UN. One notable symptom of its malaise is the Security Council and its five veto-playing permanent members—the US, UK, France, China and Russia—countries representing the world system that assist and cover up for their allies who commit human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide, and that also outsource such crimes. But lèse-humanité is the crime par excellence of the international system. It’s a basic principle of colonial “development”. So what follows isn’t about kicking the UN when it’s down, but about how Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Pop-Up Database Siphoned Crypto From Conservatives to Doxx Charlie Kirk Critics, Then Went Dark
The website listed six cryptocurrency blockchains and asked supporters to fund “a highly sophisticated enterprise system that will be impervious to Leftist attacks.” Over a two-day period, the website’s anonymous developers collected more than $30,000, per CoinTracker, software used for crypto-based taxes. About 190 payments were made to the six crypto addresses between September 12 and 14.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/pop-up-database-siphoned-crypto-from

Class divide in US life expectancy reaches 9 years for elderly
American life expectancy has stagnated since 2010 after decades of steady progress. While recent research has characterized this trend as a “double jeopardy” affecting both working-age adults and retirees, mortality at retirement ages has proven more consequential to the nation’s life expectancy crisis than trends among younger populations.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/24/qakp-o24.html

DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay
President Donald Trump announced the donation Thursday, saying that a “friend” offered the money out of a sense of patriotism. As the shutdown grinds on, Defense Department officials have shifted unused research funds to ensure that troops did not miss their mid-month paycheck, but the status of their next direct deposit is uncertain.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/dod-accepts-anonymous-130-million-donation-to-partially-cover-troop-pay-00622219
https://archive.ph/7xyXA

Trump officials to send election observers to California and New Jersey
Election monitoring is a routine function of the justice department, but the focus on California and New Jersey comes as both states are set to hold closely-watched elections with national consequences on 4 November. New JersePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Episode 498: Deal Flow Donald (TrueAnon)
Dylan Saba joins us to talk about the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, what’s in the 20-point plan, and what the present looks like in Gaza.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/deal-flow-donald

CPI Maoist Statement: On Sonu And Satish Gang‌ Treason And The Unavoidable Path Of The Revolution
We call upon the people of the revolution to punish Sonu, Satish and their followers, who have become revolutionary traitors, who have committed a revolutionary treason, who have succumbed to the enemy. Sonu and Satish are being expelled from the party. Our party’s Central Committee, Politburo member Sonu, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee member Vivek, DKSZC Deepa, 10 Divisional Committee/Company Committee members, party members, PLGA. A total of 61 members surrendered to the police in Gadchiroli in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on October 14. Our party and 50 guns of the revolutionary people were handed over to the enemy. This is a revolutionary betrayal of the party, a revolt against the party.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22109/

Ukraine: From sporadic resistance to war to the first hotbeds of collective struggle
Since the beginning of the summer, a wave of mass protests has been sweeping across the planet from the United States to South Asia. Ukraine is no exception. At the end of last year, we pointed out: “Both Ukrainian and Russian public opinion is currently focused on the presidential elections in the United States, with many having the misguided hope that a Trump victory could provide the basis for a quick, peaceful settlement of the war. It seems that only the failure of these expectations can open the way for mass interest in a revolutionary alternative. We are at a turning point in history.” The beginning concentration of anti-war direct action around certain locations marks a new stage in this process. This summer, the region of Volyn became one of the country’s leaders in this regard. Then, on September 19, according to the regional TCR (territorial center for recruitment), its employees fought off a crowd of workers in the town of Kovel with tear gas. While the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
An unverified rumor that Venezuelan gang members were preparing to kill police officers spread like wildfire through US law enforcement agencies last year, internal records reveal, only for federal officials to later quietly acknowledge the claim was mistaken. The intelligence report, which appears to have first been disseminated by a local New Mexico police department in July 2024, suggested that the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang had directed its members to “fire on or attack” law enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/venezuela-tren-de-aragua-gang-police

US court rejects Trump officials’ effort to delay rulings on veterans benefits
Wednesday’s decision came after secretary of veterans affairs, Doug Collins, asked the court to halt work on nearly all cases until the government shutdown concludes. “Pausing VA’s deadlines in nearly every case before the court is a significant and extreme request, and the secretary has failed to demonstrate that such sweeping relief is appropriate,” the judges wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/court-trump-veterans-benefits-rulings

At Request of Billionaire ‘Friends,’ Trump Pulls Plug on Troop Deployment to San Francisco—For Now
“The Federal Government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “But friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaires-stop-trump-troops-san-francisco

Injuries reported as protesters, federal agents clash in San Francisco Bay Area
Protesters gathered Thursday morning outside the Oakland entrance to Coast Guard Island, clashing with federal agents as Customs and Border Protection personnel arrived at the Coast Guard’s Alameda Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Catherine Connolly: Ireland’s left candidate
Connolly has brought together the largest grouping of left-wing political parties, trade unionists, cultural and community organisations, anti-war and solidarity groups-in a presidential election since the foundation of the Irish state. But her election is not a forgone conclusion in spite of her polls being high. The October 17 edition of the Irish Times carried a headline in reference to the forthcoming Irish presidential election which read: “Connolly holds commanding 18-point lead entering the final week.” She was on 38 per cent to Heather Humphrey’s 12 per cent. However, while such a headline might be of comfort to Connolly’s supporters some of the more cynical among us would think there could have been an ulterior motive in writing such a headline. Could it have been a sort of clarion call to those who do not desire a left-wing candidate as president to come out and vote for her opponent? We all know of the story of the Trojan Horse and the old saying “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” (No offence to Greeks.) So was there an ulterior motive?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/catherine-connolly-irelands-left-candidate

My Time in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center: This is an excerpt from The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas by Belén Fernández, now available from Rutgers University Press.
The first time I spoke with survivors of the Darién Gap, I was in jail in Mexico. It was July 2021, and I was serving a brief stint as the token gringa inmate in Siglo XXI, Mexico’s largest immigration detention center, located in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, just west of the border with Guatemala. Over two thousand kilometers to the southeast of Tapachula lies the Darién Gap, known in Spanish as el Tapón del Darién or “the Darién Plug”: a 106 kilometer stretch of territory that straddles Panama and Colombia and constitutes the only roadless interruption in the Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to the tip of Argentina. The Darién Gap encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle that has in recent years become a mass migrant graveyard, as hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers from across the world are forced to contend with its horrors while pursuing tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Deputy US marshal and man shot during Ice operation in Los Angeles
During the operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents surrounded and boxed in a man in his vehicle. Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS assistant secretary, said the man used his vehicle to ram the federal agents’ vehicles in an attempt to flee. Officers then fired “defensive shots”. The man was shot in the elbow. The deputy marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet, the DHS said. Both were taken to the hospital.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/deputy-marshal-shot-los-angeles

State websites blame Republicans for food stamp cuts as shutdown drags on
States have started to warn that millions of families could go without food aid next month, and some have adopted the Trump administration's more partisan tone. "Because Republicans in Washington, D.C., failed to pass a federal budget, causing the federal government shutdown, November 2025 SNAP benefits cannot be paid," the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services website said. "Federal officials with the Trump Administration have told all states that if the Republican federal government shutdown continues, it won't pay for SNAP (food stamp) benefits in November," the Illinois Application for Benefits Eligibility website said.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/snap-benefits-trump-democrats
https://archive.ph/9OSg6

Trump nominates new Army vice chief with current general just two years into the role
The nomination and replacement come less than a week after Adm. Alvin Holsey, the Navy admiral who is overseeing military operations against alleged drug boats off Venezuela, announced a surprise, early retirement in December. About a month ago, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, head of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, also suddenly announced his retirement, citing “personal and family reasons.”
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-army-vice-chief-of-staff-penPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The China spy trial fiasco and Britain’s decline on the world stage
What is Britain’s place in the world? The British ruling class has been asking itself this question for the best part of a hundred years, as it has struggled to come to terms with its ever-deepening decline, decade after decade. The latest event to expose its diminished status and prompt a bout of soul searching is the collapse of the China spy trial, an episode reminiscent of the recent Netflix spy drama Black Doves. Two British citizens, Chris Cash and Chris Berry, were accused of spying on Britain for China over a sustained period of time. But last week, the case against them collapsed, for what are on the surface technicalities: the law was changed after they had been charged, which now required the government to state that the country in question (China), was a threat to national security at the specific time those charged were spying on its behalf. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, it proved impossible to get the government to state this. Instead, it said that “the UK Government is committed to pursuing a positive relationship with China.” It is therefore clear that the trial collapsed because Starmer has changed the government’s attitude to China, from it being a “threat”, as Liz Truss defined it, to a country with which to seek a “positive relationship”.
https://communist.red/the-china-spy-trial-fiasco-and-britains-decline-on-the-world-stage/

Blame finance capital, not Brexit, for budget crisis
LABOUR Party members are clear on what Rachel Reeves’s priorities should be as she prepares to present her Budget next month. They believe she should protect public services by raising taxes, if needs be, according to a poll by Survation. More than three-quarters of party members back that view, the survey found. The members are prepared to see the government set aside its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, National Insurance for workers, or VAT if needs be. It is not normally good politics to break clear promises made at election time. It only increases cynicism towards politicians, whose public standing is already very low. But here Labour is in a vice of its own making. The tax pledges it made cover most of the available means of raising government revenue.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tech jobs bloodbath continues with Amazon announcing new round of layoffs
Amazon announced last week it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs by the tech giant. The latest cuts will focus on its human resources division known as the People eXperience Technology team. Fifteen percent of a worldwide staff of 10,000, or approximately 1,500 employees, are being let go.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/20/zabr-o20.html

US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages
Hamilton also handed NSO a significant break on the damages awarded in a recently concluded jury trial, reducing the punitive damages it owes Meta from about $167 million to $4 million. The injunction is likely to pose a challenge to NSO, which has for years been accused of facilitating human rights abuses through its flagship hacking tool, Pegasus.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-court-orders-spyware-company-nso-stop-targeting-whatsapp-reduces-damages-2025-10-18/

‘A Betrayal’: Ranchers Slam Trump Plan to Buy Beef From Argentina With US Tax Dollar
“President Trump’s plan to buy beef from Argentina is a betrayal of the American rancher,” Christian Lovell, an Illinois cattle producer and senior director of programs at the organization Farm Action, said in a Monday statement. “Those of us who raise cattle have finally started to see what profit looks like after facing years of high input costs and market manipulation by the meatpacking monopoly.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/argentina-beef

DHS purchase of business jets during shutdown draws Democrats’ ire
Democrats in Congress on Saturday criticized the Trump administration's decision to buy two Gulfstream G700 jets for $172 million during the ongoing government shutdown that are to be used by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior leaders. The U.S. Coast Guard entered into a solPost too long. Click here to view the full text.