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110 results in /leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect OP/ED News Anon 3.0 05-09-26 22:56:25 No. 2907606
DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created after 9/11 to fight the global war on terrorism is now maintaining centralized dossiers on ordinary American protesters. Four days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge, HSI began Operation Puppet Master, their undercover spying campaign that netted conspiracy charges against 15 people who allegedly took part in protesting against ICE. An HSI undercover agent, embedded inside the Signal group chat Whipple Watch, downloaded a selfie posted by Isaac Sant. The photo shows Sant’s face bruised from rubber bullets. The agent uploaded the selfie to Clearview AI’s facial recognition database that turned it into a dossier.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/dhs-facial-recognition-software-used-against-minnesota-15/ The Marxist approach to war In his Philosophy of History, Hegel remarked that “it was not so much from slavery as through slavery that humanity was emancipated.” A similar thing could be said about war, which – for all its horrors and barbarities – has shaped the world in ways good as well as bad. History almost appears to us as an endless series of armed conflicts: wars of imperialist domination; wars of national defence and liberation; colonial and slave wars; and, of course, civil wars. It could be said that wars provide the second most important impulse for historical development, behind revolutions – although even then, many revolutions are the result of wars, or evolve into wars in the course of their unfolding. Unlike the teary-eyed pacifists, Marxists recognise that war is a natural outgrowth of class society. We understand that no serious transformation of society can take place without a pitched battle between the contending classes. Leninism, Leon Trotsky once remarked, is “warlike from head to foot”. And yet, at the same time, we maintain that war is a stamp of barbarism; a black mark on humanity’s record, and a blight on our species. War is rightly reviled and hated by workers and young people – as barbaric, violent, backwards,
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Pentagon Launched ‘Unprecedented’ Polygraph Spree After Leaks Revealed Disastrous Truth About Iran War: NYT The polygraph campaign “appeared aimed at not just ferreting out anyone who may have shared information, but intimidating others who might do so in the future,” the Times reported. The Times reported that the hunt for leakers has “intensified an atmosphere of deep distrust and paranoia inside the Pentagon” under the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has purged multiple top military officials during his tenure leading the department.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-polygraph-campaign-leaks ‘Too lazy to do the job’: Democrats dump on Fetterman after WSJ report The Journal’s story recounted multiple instances of Fetterman refusing to meet with constituents in Washington, even for scheduled meetings. In one case, he canceled on three paralyzed military veterans in his office, telling his staff that he was feeling unwell. But Fetterman came into the office shortly thereafter to prepare for a live hit with Fox News.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/04/fetterman-wsj-democrats-criticize https://archive.ph/dVSfW Trump taps massive war chest to help embattled Paxton in Texas Republicans have been eager to see Trump deploy his $400 million war chest in the party's fight to maintain its congressional majorities. "I'm going to spend whatever amount of money necessary to try and help us," Trump said at the White House Friday.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/05/trump-magainc-paxton-talarico-texas-senate https://archive.ph/Na5Jp Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 9/5/26 News Anon 3.0 05-09-26 22:16:45 No. 2907579 [Reply]
Only 7 of 15 Regime Supply Vessels Reach Embattled Bhamo The flotilla, consisting of tugboats and gunboats, departed Mandalay for Bhamo via the Irrawaddy River on August 21. To clear a path in advance, regime fighter jets and Y-12 aircraft indiscriminately bombed resistance-controlled areas along the river route in Sagaing Region’s Katha Township and adjacent Shwegu Township in Kachin. Despite the destruction of civilian houses, there were only a few reports of casualties, as residents along the route were warned by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allied resistance groups to evacuate the areas in advance.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/only-7-of-15-regime-supply-vessels-reach-embattled-bhamo.html Philippine VP Duterte posts bail after arrest order for alleged grave threats "If I post bail, the harassment won’t stop. If I don’t post bail, I’ll be taken to the police. I have no trust in the police, I have no trust in the courts. I do not feel safe at all," Duterte said. She asked who would be held accountable “if I die tonight,” saying police would simply “wash their hands and call it an accident.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-vp-duterte-posts-bail-after-arrest-order-alleged-grave-threats-2026-09-05/ Greeks promised tax relief, wage hikes as protesters take to the streets over cost of living crunch Labor unions and multiple protest groups staged rallies across the city, with farmers driving tractors into the downtown area. More than 3,000 police officers were on duty, closing streets and subway stations near the venue where the prime minister spoke. Greece delivered a budget surplus and economic growth of 2.1% last year, while continuing to reduce its high public debt, but its workers had the lowest purchasing power in the European Union.
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1067 - Bride of DataRepublican feat. David J. Roth (8/31/26)(Chapo Trap House ) Chapo All-Star David Roth returns for a survey of the right-wing influencers running the government: DataRepublican, MomOfDataRepublican, InfantryDort, all of the stars are here! We also check in on another round of liberal struggle sessions about Hasan, and the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos by the cowardess Laura Loomer.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1067-bride-of-datarepublican Gloria Steinem Was the Godmother of Neoliberal Feminism Gloria Steinem, the establishment’s favorite radical feminist, died on September 2. The mainstream media has gone all out in praising her, with the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times united in their adulation. The Times called her the “personification of the women’s movement” and credited her with helping to usher in “sweeping cultural transformations across virtually every facet of American life, from the boardroom to the courtroom to the bedroom.” They approvingly quote her self-description as an “entrepreneur of social change.” For many people, she is the only radical feminist they can name, eclipsing the extraordinary women who planned and launched the successful women’s liberation movement starting in 1967. Steinem did wield enormous influence. Ms. magazine and the Ms. Foundation for Women, which she cofounded, came to define what was worthy in the feminist project. But to the women’s liberation pioneers she displaced, this meant silencing the radicals and promoting the anodyne. When Steinem described Ms. as “a kind of connective tissue for women all across this country who felt isolated until we came along and let them know they were not alone,” feminist pioneers saw Steinem as taking credit for work already done by the movement. The women’s liberation movement didn’t need Ms. to publicize it. It had already been on the front page of nearly every mass circulation magazine and had produced ten mass-market anthologies by 1971, selling millions of copies. The movement published one hundred small newspapers and journals, including Off Our Backs, It Ain’t Me Babe, and Woman’s World. And it had already won substantial victories by the time Steinem emerged on the scene. Thousands of working-class women were suing employers for sex disc
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Starbucks anti-unionization case brought by NLRB narrowed by US appeals court In a 2-0 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that the coffee chain violated federal labor law when a Wichita, Kansas, store manager and assistant manager told employees they closed their hiring portal and reduced hours because of union or other protected activities.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/starbucks-anti-unionization-case-brought-by-nlrb-narrowed-by-us-appeals-court-2026-09-04/ Ro Khanna Demands End to Trump’s Iran War ‘Before the Midterms’ Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Trump aides were seeking to stop the war from escalating for now to keep it out of the headlines and prevent Republicans from losing even more support before November. But once the votes are cast, they said Trump—who won’t have to deal with concerns about reelection—may ramp up military action.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/khanna-end-war-midterms US House passes bill to crack down on university boycotts of Israel The Republican-majority chamber voted 237-169 in favor of the "Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act," which would have to pass the Senate in order to become law. … U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, said in a statement before the vote that he opposed the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement but would vote no because he supported Americans' right to free expression. "It is the only way to ensure speech I do agree with is equally protected," Nadler said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-passes-bill-crack-down-university-boycotts-israel-2026-09-03/ Trump says he will spend up to $500 million of ‘my money’ to help Republicans in midterms President Donald Trump said he plans to allocate $400 million to $500 million from his political operation to help Republican candidates in the No
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Secretive' UAE and Swiss-based firms found to be major crude suppliers to Israel, says report Despite a Turkish embargo against Israel, the majority of the oil shipped by the two companies flows through the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Researchers also identified two subsidiaries of Heritage on the Turkish trade register. While oil giants including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell have faced criticism over their role in supplying oil to Israel during its genocide in Gaza, the part played by a shady network of oil traders in the supply chain has received far less scrutiny.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-two-secretive-firms-became-major-crude-suppliers-israel Yemen's Houthis launch first major offensive in four years Around 129 people have been killed, according to an AFP tally, including 66 government soldiers, 62 Houthi militants, and one civilian, though Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported that dozens of civilians had been killed and wounded in a Houthi ballistic missile strike on a restaurant in the city of Mokha. The city of Mokha is reported to be a key objective for the Houthi offensive, a key port controlled by the government on the Red Sea, with the Houthis assaulting positions on the Taiz-Mokha road to reach the city.
https://www.newarab.com/news/yemens-houthis-launch-first-major-offensive-four-years Thousands join Berlin’s Peace Days to support antimilitarism and solidarity Trade unionists and representatives from DKP branches discussed how to move unions from passivity into active opposition. They laid out the challenges currently faced in their workplaces and turned to a key question facing the movement as militarization accelerates – countering the claim that shifting to a war economy can safeguard jobs and revive Germany’s stagnating economy.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/01/thousands-join-berlins-peace-days-to-support-antimilitarism-and-solidarity/ Communist Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 9/4/26 News Anon 3.0 04-09-26 23:18:07 No. 2907115 [Reply]
Philippine Vice-President to be arrested for threats against President Marcos Ms Duterte had already already impeached by the House of Representatives in May on the same charges, as well as over alleged financial anomalies. A conviction could derail her plans to seek the presidency in 2028, when President Marcos’s six-year term ends. A lawyer of the vice-president, who has denied the charges, suggested she will post bail to avoid detention while facing trial by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/philippine-vice-president-arrested-threats-against-president-marcos Sri Lanka ex-president's son arrested on graft charges Namal Rajapaksa, who is a lawmaker representing the opposition Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, was arrested following more than five hours of questioning by Sri Lanka's key anti-graft body, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption. The order to remand him was issued by Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-ex-presidents-son-arrested-graft-charges-2026-09-04/ 2 trapped workers rescued from hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floods When the mountain gave way above the Nepali power plant where Sah worked, he said he chose to stay and help instead of fleeing. "I was in the control room in the tunnel. Normally there are four to six people there, but there could have been 40 to 45 people that day," the 30-year-old told army officials from a stretcher, an oxygen mask strapped to his face, in a video shared by the Nepalese authorities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-rescue-tunnel-flood-9.7332145 Women journalists who have accused Delhi police of assault to move high court In a video released by 4PM News Network, Shaheen alleged that she and Nafisa were beaten and subjected to mental harassment at the police station. She displayed inju
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Sweden’s Employment Protection Act Is a Joke: Labor lawyer Rasmus Hästbacka writes about Sweden’s supposedly strong legal protection for workers. I often find myself in grim negotiations where the employer has already decided to fire workers because they’ve suffered workplace injuries or illnesses – or because they’re union activists or health-and-safety delegates. In such situations, the employer doesn’t care one bit about the Swedish Employment Protection Act, abbreviated LAS. Workers are offered a “voluntary” buyout under the threat of a forced buyout. How does that work? First, you need to understand that firing people in Sweden has never been difficult – at least not legally, only financially costly in some cases. Under Section 39 of LAS, employers can always dismiss workers and then buy them out against their will. Even if you’re fired in violation of the law, and even if a court rules that the employer broke the law, the employer can simply buy their way out of the verdict by paying the damages specified in Section 39. In short, the law literally states that money stands above the law. A forced buyout therefore means that you lose your job even if you win in court. The very name of the law – the Employment Protection Act – is therefore somewhat misleading. A more accurate name would be the Law on Employers’ Right to Fire Workers on Any Grounds They Please.
https://libcom.org/article/swedens-employment-protection-act-joke In the Name of Security: An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches, which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse. When Karla Padilla started her sentence at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, Calif., in 2023, a guard singled her out. Over the next 15 months, the guard strip-searched Padilla so frequently that anyone near her risked being searched too, and other inmates began keeping their distance whenever that guard was on shift. Most prisons across the country conduct strip searches under a federal policy that requires women officers to inspect incarcerated women. The officer instructs them to remove their clothes, shake their hair, open their mouths, lift their breasts or genital area and then bend, squat and cough. On one particularly cold day in November 2023, while Padilla was cleaning the cha
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ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in Minneapolis charged with lying to investigators The ICE officer was released from jail last week after Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, refused to immediately sign an extradition warrant that would surrender him to the Minnesota authorities that had charged Castro separately with assault and false reporting of a crime related to the same shooting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/ice-officer-charged-venzuela-man-shot-minneapolis Trump again appeals to Supreme Court on mail-voting restrictions with midterm elections looming The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the rapidly approaching midterm election. Its appeal was part of a flurry of last-minute litigation as the federal government struggles to implement President Donald Trump’s restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November, and came even as legal wrangling over Trump’s executive order continued in lower courts.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-executive-order-lawsuit-63899f738d28d161b629054a314f161a Congressman Suhas Subramanyam says his phone conversations were recorded by FBI and DOJ In a statement released on Thursday, the Virginia congressman said he was informed that phone conversations he had had with State Senator and President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas were being monitored as part of their investigation into Sen. Lucas.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/congressman-suhas-subramanyam-phone-conversations-recorded-fbi-and-doj/65-cd745cd1-67ae-49f2-a384-99aa451d3726 Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following the departure of Driscoll Telle has been at the Army Office of Civil Works s
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Thousands of Chileans March Against Kast’s Policies The mobilization, which had one of its epicenters near Baquedano Metro station, an iconic gathering point during the 2019 social uprising, coincided with the start of the fifth edition of the Madrid Forum, the international far-right summit being held in Santiago, Chile. On Sept. 3 and 4, the forum, founded in 2020 by Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s Vox party, will be attended by Argentine President Javier Milei, U.S. Undersecretary Sarah Rogers, Heritage Foundation Director Kevin Roberts, European Parliament member Kinga Gal, among other conservative figures.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/thousands-of-chileans-march-against-kasts-policies/ Resistance to Bolivia IMF deal grows as groups meet over fuel crisis Representatives from nine civic and social organizations met on Wednesday in Cochabamba, calling on the government to ease costs as diesel shortages and subsidy cuts hurt households and industry. The meeting adds to pressure on centrist President Rodrigo Paz's administration as he seeks congressional backing for the IMF deal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/resistance-bolivia-imf-deal-grows-groups-meet-over-fuel-crisis-2026-09-03/ Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal In a video posted on social media, the Nobel peace prize winner said: “Of course the United States is the principal partner Venezuela needs to fully develop its strategic potential. This is what the majority of Venezuelans believe … and it is something I’ve spent my whole life defending.” However, Machado said, the current occupants of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas were “enemies of the US”, saying they did not have the right or the democratic mandate to negotiate Venezuela’s natural resources.
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Communist Party of Venezuela denounces Rodríguez government’s handing over of oil wealth to the U.S. "The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) categorically rejects this latest and serious transfer of national assets carried out by the illegitimate and illegal triumvirate that holds de facto power in Venezuela. Information that has come to light in recent days confirms the transfer of one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves to U.S. companies through agreements negotiated behind the backs of the Venezuelan people, without transparency, and outside the constitutional controls that must govern any operation involving the Republic’s strategic interests. Delcy Rodríguez confirmed the transfer of 17 strategic oil fields with approximately 65 billion barrels of proven reserves. According to the list that has circulated, not all of these are exclusively virgin fields. The agreement provides for new developments in fields where oil reserves have already been proven and where operational knowledge has been accumulated over decades. This is neither a minor agreement nor a simple commercial transaction. We are witnessing the transfer of a significant portion of the nation’s primary wealth under conditions unknown to the country and regarding which there has been neither the necessary public debate nor the parliamentary oversight established in Articles 150 and 187 of the Constitution." Once again, fundamental matters of Venezuelan political and economic life are announced from the White House, and Miraflores simply goes along with it.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/09/communist-party-of-venezuela-denounces-rodriguez-goverments-handing-over-of-oil-wealth-to-the-us.html Bolivia: New Roadblocks Challenge Paz’s Repressive State of Exception With less than a month remaining before the legal deadline for the state of emergency imposed by Rodrigo Paz’s government expires, popular discontent is once again growing in Bolivia. Last week, a group of farmers from the province of Marbán, in the department of Beni, set up a roadblock near the San Pablo Bridge. The move disrupted traffic on the highway connecting Trinidad and Santa Cruz and forced the suspension of departures
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Bari Weiss Personally Involved in CBS News Hit Piece on Abdul El-Sayed: Report The CBS piece, which was published on Monday, drew criticism from Democratic lawmakers and progressive journalists for saying that El-Sayed “may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack” due to past innocuous statements he’d made about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bari-weiss-cbs-el-sayed Teamsters union leaders support Republicans despite members endorsing Democrats O’Brien donated $1,000 to the Republican US Senate campaign of Scott Brown in New Hampshire on 19 February 2026. Brown appeared on O’Brien’s podcast, Better Bad Ideas, on 25 February. The only Teamsters’ local in New Hampshire, Teamsters Local 633, endorsed Brown’s Democratic rival Chris Pappas for the Senate race in April 2025. Teamsters Local 633 did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/teamsters-union-republican-endorsement ‘At a Breaking Point’: Survey Shows Teachers Working Second Jobs, Spending Hundreds on Supplies The pollsters found that a majority of respondents anticipate spending at least $100 to $600 on supplies for their classrooms without being reimbursed. Over a quarter said that school funding issues shift costs to teachers, and supply prices keep rising.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/teachers-buying-supplies Justice department orders US states to expand how they report undocumented immigrants Under the new opinion, issued by the department’s office of legal counsel, any state that takes federal money through support schemes for low-income Americans, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI), must now report undocumented immigrants across its entire state government, not just through the specific welfare office that runs the program.
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Hague arbitration panel says India must honor water-sharing treaty with Pakistan India’s Ministry of External Affairs called the panel an “illegally constituted” body and said India had never recognized its legal authority or participated in its proceedings. The ministry said the tribunal had been established in violation of the treaty and that New Delhi’s decision to hold the agreement in abeyance remained in force.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-water-treaty-hague-arbitration-1af8defb6de801b19676656a6224ce30 China Demands Respect for Venezuela Investments amid Oilfield Transfers to US-Controlled Operator Guo added that the economic and trade relations between nations “should follow the principles of equality and mutual benefit.” Beijing’s warning came in the wake of an announced US-Venezuela oil deal that Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez termed “historic” and US President Donald Trump called “the biggest in history.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/china-demands-respect-for-venezuela-investments-amid-oilfield-transfers-to-us-controlled-operator/ De la Espriella claims Colombia’s military killed 23, arrested 6 EMC guerrillas In a video, De la Espriella said that “Operation Azarias,” targeted the EMC’s Carolina Ramirez Front and killed one of its commanders, a man called “Tigre” or “Pintado,” in the south of the Guaviare province. A second guerrilla commander, “Victor,” was among the six alleged EMC members who were arrested during the operation, which included air strikes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-army-killed-23-arrested-6-emc-guerrillas/ Brazilian activist demands Tunisia release Sumud Flotilla organisers Israeli authorities released Nabil Channoufi, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri, and Wael Naouar from prison and they returned to Tunisia in October. Fellow activists said Tu
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Burnham must stop housing back-sliding IF IT is too early to come to any rounded judgement regarding Andy Burnham’s programme and policies – that should wait until the budget next month — it is not too soon to express concern about his government’s course in relation to the vital issue of housing. Here he is in danger of following Keir Starmer in under-delivering. One pledge after another has been discarded or diluted. First, a suggestion of introducing a private-sector rent freeze was dropped without explanation. This would have been a far more substantive measure to tackle the cost-of-living crisis than anything else the new government has announced, and would have indicated whose side Burnham is on – working people rather than rapacious landlords. Second, a clear commitment to promote council housing has been watered down in favour of more amorphous concepts of social or “affordable” housing. Only three of the more than 30 bodies to get new government funding for construction are actually councils.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-must-stop-housing-back-sliding Rosa Luxemburg: Down With Reformist Illusions—Hail the Revolutionary Class Struggle! Proposals to hold out “the open hand to good will” marked the beginning of the nineties; promises of an inperceptible, “gradual evolution” into Socialism marked their end. Crises, wars, and revolutions were considered outworn theories, mere swaddling clothes of modern society; parliamentarism and trade unionism, democracy in the State and democracy in the industry were to open the gates to a new and better order. …. The actual course of events played frightful havoc with all these illusions. In place of the promised mild social-reformist development of culture there has set in since the end of the nineties a period of the most violent, extreme sharpening of capitalist conflicts, a period of storm and stress, of crashes and turmoil, of tottering and trembling in the very foundations of society. The ten-year period of the economic upward curve of development was compensated for in the following decade by two world-convulsing crises. After two decades of world peace there followed in the last decade of last century six bloody wars and in the first decade of the new century four bloody revolut
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U.S. officials defend deal with controversial Venezuelan oil baron In 2018, Betancourt was listed as an unnamed "conspirator" in a federal indictment of his cousin and seven others in a $1.2 billion international money-laundering scheme involving manipulated currency exchange rates between U.S. dollars and Venezuelan bolivars. Betancourt was never charged in the crimes, which largely occurred between 2014 and 2016, because his attorneys successfully argued he was unaware of the scheme.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/01/us-officials-defend-deal-venezuelan-oil-baron https://archive.ph/7VmWs Forest Service chief faces scrutiny over logging ties as Trump plans to scrap protections Donald Trump this month announced plans to rescind a landmark rule that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years. If finalized, the rollback is expected to benefit the companies that Tom Schultz, chief of the US Forest Service, represented in his previous roles as a timber industry lobbyist and executive, according to research by consumer advocacy non-profit Public Citizen.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/trump-roadless-rule-old-growth-forests House Democrats fume about GOP's anti-socialism bill House Democrats are grumbling that Republicans are setting one last political trap for them before November by attaching language touting their marquee voter ID legislation to a resolution denouncing socialism. This is a classic election-year tactic by the majority party in Congress, but centrist Democrats say it is also a missed opportunity for a genuinely bipartisan vote to denounce socialism.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/01/democrats-house-socialism-republicans-save-act https://archive.ph/IG3aF BofA vice president killed in Times Square stabbing Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 9/1/26 News Anon 3.0 01-09-26 19:11:01 No. 2904818 [Reply]
Five years after Saied’s power grab, Tunisia’s old grievances resurface A slogan from the 2011 revolution is being heard again: “employment, freedom and national dignity”. This time, those demands are being fuelled by water cuts, electricity outages, rising prices, medicine shortages and a struggle to make ends meet, problems increasingly affecting Tunisians across social and economic divides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/1/five-years-after-saieds-power-grab-tunisias-old-grievances-resurface https://archive.ph/3JEwi Kenyan aviation workers end strike The workers were demanding better working conditions and the implementation of a previously agreed deal. “We are simply calling off our strike action and pleading with our members to begin the process of normalising operations, restoring services,” Moss Ndiema, the head of the workers’ union, told a press conference yesterday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-aviation-workers-end-strike Israeli hasbara influencer Yoseph Haddad launches political party Haddad has also been in contact with several political and military figures about his political plans, including former Israeli military commander Ofer Winter. Winter has been accused by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) of war crimes allegedly committed during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge, as well as incitement to genocide over statements made in connection with the current war on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-hasbara-influencer-yoseph-haddad-launches-political-party Israel imposes curriculum on 45,000 Palestinian students in East Jerusalem Israeli authorities are imposing their curriculum on more than 45,000 Palestinian students in state-run schools in East Jerusalem, as part of a wider crackdown on education in the occupied area of the c
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Where is the climate movement? At a time when climate change is no longer an abstract ‘question of the future’ for Britain, but is making itself devastatingly felt in the here-and-now, it’s right to ask: where has the climate movement gone? For young people today who only have further ecological collapse ahead of them, it can be seriously demoralising to not see anyone taking action to save the environment. It’s no wonder that this summer’s rising temperatures have brought with them a rise in ‘climate anxiety’. So what happened to the climate movement? And will we see its return any time soon?
https://communist.red/where-is-the-climate-movement/ Venezuela-U.S oil deal exposes the total bankruptcy of social democracy By Nikos Mottas, Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism There are moments when political developments strip away every disguise and expose the class character of political forces with unusual clarity. The latest oil agreement between Washington and the government of Delcy Rodríguez is one such moment. After years of “Bolivarian,” “anti-imperialist” and even “socialist” rhetoric, Venezuela’s social-democratic leadership is presiding over a further opening of the country’s strategic energy wealth to U.S. monopoly interests. This is not an isolated commercial arrangement. It follows the reform of the hydrocarbons framework, which widened the possibilities for transnational capital in the oil sector and continued the privileged position of companies such as Chevron. The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) has denounced this course as a retreat from national control over hydrocarbons and as a policy increasingly shaped by the demands of foreign capital. The political significance goes far beyond the terms of a single deal. For years, opportunist forces internationally demanded that communists identify solidarity with the Venezuelan people against U.S. imperialist aggression with political support for the PSUV government. Criticism of the capitalist character of the Venezuelan economy, of concessions to domestic and foreign capital, of attacks on workers’ rights or of the persecution of the PCV was often treated as if it objectively served Washington. Recent developments once again show how bankrupt that argument is. The same political current that presented the manage
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Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice Pete Hegseth regularly receives formal objections from senior commanders and proceeds anyway, the Pentagon’s top spokesman has said, as he tried to discredit a Washington Post report that four generals and admirals had advised against prolonging the war in Iran. “Of course, we demand candid military advice,” Sean Parnell wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Non-concurs are standard. The Secretary sees them constantly. That’s how you run a real military.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/31/pentagon-report-pete-hegseth Trump says US will refill its petroleum reserves using Venezuelan oil United States President Donald Trump has said on social media that oil from a recently struck deal with Venezuela will be used to replenish the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an oil stockpile that the country keeps for emergencies and that has been drawn down sharply in recent years to respond to global supply disruptions and high fuel prices.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/trump-says-us-will-refill-its-petroleum-reserves-using-venezuelan-oil https://archive.ph/9IZ9c USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations, Politico reports Although the third project remains funded, all scientists working on the parasite have declined to relocate to Iowa, Politico reported, citing people familiar with the plans and internal documents. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. "None of the research has been disrupted, and research will continue without disruption," a USDA spokesperson said, while pointing to Congress over the funding cuts.
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Who Attended Jake Lang’s N-Word March in Minneapolis? Minneapolis, MN — On Saturday, Aug. 22, Minneapolis residents met white supremacist provocateur and violent J6 terrorist Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang with fierce resistance outside of Minneapolis City Hall once again. For his second hate rally in Minneapolis, Lang planned this one as the "uyghur March” in protest of Shiloh Hendrix being found guilty of disorderly conduct after calling an 8-year-old the racial slur at a playground in Rochester, Minnesota. Instead of arriving unprepared and leaving with a gaping wound in the back of his skull, Lang showed up in the back of a truck with a private security escort following closely behind in an SUV, driving down the sidewalk of City Hall while he and his masked guards doused counter protesters in a generous amount of pepper spray. Minneapolis Police provided additional support to Lang by guarding his truck and punching and pushing counter protesters, arresting a handful, including the person dressed as Spider-Man who had jumped onto the truck and punched Lang. As quickly as they arrived, they left. Halfway through the six-minute performance, Lang snuck away into the passenger seat of the cab, leaving those that remained in the back in something resembling a group fetal position, shielding themselves from debris while dozens of police officers cleared the way for the vehicles to leave. Hours later, the Minneapolis Police Department announced that officers intercepted both vehicles, impounding them and arresting all of the occupants, charging them with probable cause riot and processing them throughout the afternoon at the Hennepin County Jail.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/who-attended-jake-langs-n-word-march-in-minneapolis/ Rezgar Akrawi: Rojava’s Promise and the Dissolution of the SDF: Time for the Left to Rethink the Kurdish Question? From this it follows that criticising the SDF is not criticism of the rights of the Kurdish people. Criticising the ruling parties in the Kurdistan Region is not criticism of the Kurdish cause. Rejecting the nation-state is not a rejection of national identity and national rights. It is a leftist position, one that calls for national solidarity to be freed from subordination to elites and authorities, for the question o
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Judge deals blow to Trump moves to deport pro-Palestinian activists U.S. District Judge Noel Wise in San Jose, California in a blistering ruling, chastised the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Homeland Security for how they had deployed provisions of federal immigration law to target non-citizens for deportation for expressing views they wanted to suppress. The judge, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, said that in the United States, free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, was evidence of the strength of the country's democracy.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-deals-blow-trump-moves-deport-pro-palestinian-activists-2026-08-29/ US revises statements suggesting Chinese hackers attacked agencies In a newly edited statement on Friday, the US Department of Justice said that the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and other agencies were “among the targets of QTFY”, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group. A previous version of the statement said the government agencies had been among the hackers’ victims.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/us-revises-statements-suggesting-chinese-hackers-attacked-agencies https://archive.ph/bFFV1 Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions In February of this year, federal prosecutors twice sought search warrants for account information for the YouTube channel of Fort and the journalist Don Lemon, both of whom have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in connection to a protest at a Minneapolis church in January that they were covering. A judge twice rejected the request, writing that the government had failed to establish probable cause of a crime and that he wanted Lemon and Fort to be informed of the request so they could have a chance to challenge it.
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Sri Lankan government bans railway workers from using social media The circular came immediately after comments posted by Kasun Chamara, the Secretary of the Railway Station Masters’ Union (RSMU), on its Facebook page, about long-standing problems, particularly the many technical failures on locomotives this year. The railway administration responded to Chamara’s comments by asking for an “explanation.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/29/eowq-a29.html QCPD apologizes for sharing post red-tagging community pantries The Quezon City Police District doubled down on making amends Tuesday, April 20, after it sustained a terrible lashing on social media for red-tagging community pantries. The QCPD shared Monday, April 19, on its official Facebook page an unfounded social media post linking community pantries to the communist movement.
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/quezon-city-police-district-apology-red-tagging-post-community-pantries/ CPI(M) protests over exclusion of Kalaburagi from drought-hit list According to CPI(M) members, Kalaburagi district has recorded a 54% rainfall deficit. The district recorded 36% less rainfall than normal in June and 84% less rainfall in July. The prolonged dry spell has caused distress among farmers and led to sowing on less than 30% of the targeted area, the party said. The activists questioned the government’s decision not to declare any taluk in the district drought-hit despite these indicators.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/cpim-protests-over-exclusion-of-kalaburagi-from-drought-hit-list/article71405183.ece https://archive.ph/LE08J Trump Announces ‘Biggest Oil Deal in History’ with Venezuela’s Rodríguez Rodríguez stated that the deal will involve private corporations developing 17 “strategic fields” with 65 billion barrels
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Sudan: from revolution to barbarism The counter-revolution has pulled Sudan into the depths of barbarism.
In 2019, the workers had power in their hands, but the reformist leaders betrayed them and handed power back to the regime. By 2022, the revolution was lost. A year later, the revolution’s executioners turned their guns on each other, each backed by a constellation of different foreign powers. Now they have laid waste to Khartoum, launched a genocide in Darfur, and unleashed the world’s most catastrophic famine in 40 years. To date at least 400,000 people have been slaughtered, 4 million have fled the country, and a further 7 million have been internally displaced. More than 30 million are in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 6.3 million face extreme levels of starvation. Two and a half years of war have effectively ripped the country in half. Socialism or barbarism is not an empty phrase, but exactly the perspective that faced Sudan in 2019. Revolutionaries must absorb the lessons of Sudan to prepare for future battles.
https://marxist.com/sudan-from-revolution-to-barbarism.htm Kshama Sawant: Mayor Mamdani, DSA Leaders, and Business Unionist Labor Leaders Are Selling Out New York Public Sector Unions The teaching assistants, who work with students with disabilities, are grossly underpaid and overexploited, with annual salaries starting at under $34,000 and topping out at under $57,000 after about 15 years of work. This is in a city where the minimum individual pay to get by is around $80,000. Not surprisingly, over 1,800 teaching assistant positions, also known as paraprofessionals, remain unfilled. The City Council’s legislation is strongly supported by the United Federation of Teachers, the union that represents over 200,000 workers in NYC’s public school system. Despite the dire conditions faced by the paraprofessional public school workers, and himself having acknowledged that a NYC family needs an annual income of over $300,000 to be able to afford childcare, Mayor Mamdani opposes the $10,000 bonuses. Mamdani, currently the most prominent leader of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has announced that he will be suing the City in order to repeal the bonuses.
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Trump vows legal order to break up 'nasty monopoly' in food processing U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was preparing a legal order to allow farmers and ranchers to be given the right to process their own food aimed at breaking what he called "a nasty monopoly" among the nation's top processors.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-vows-legal-order-break-up-food-processing-nasty-monopoly-2026-08-28/ After Supreme Court Ruling, 4th Circuit Tosses Verdict Against US Company for Abu Ghraib Torture The US Supreme Court recently delivered a “lethal blow” to lawsuits filed under an 18th-century law, including a case brought by Iraqis tortured at Abu Ghraib as part of the George W. Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq, whose landmark verdict was struck down on Friday by a federal appellate court.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/abu-graib Hindu nationalist leader spurs protests and calls for sanctions ahead of New York City speech Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, widely considered the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is scheduled to address about 5,000 members of Indian American groups in the Infosys Theater, located in Madison Square Garden. Titled “Universal Oneness Celebration,” the event is being organized by American Hindus for Engagement and Dialogue.
https://apnews.com/article/hindu-nationalist-rss-mohan-bhagwat-new-york-protest-934a58a17a491eeeb71fd9285378121a Public workers union helped sink labor nod for Lander The union’s president, Henry Garrido, said in an interview Thursday that Lander’s audit of New York City’s Health Insurance Stabilization Fund as city comptroller was a factor in the opposition to his endorsement. The report, which recommended the fund’s dissolution, angered the union. “Our members were really upset about that,” Garrido said. Lander has also been at odds with the union after the group backed moving retirees to a M
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Iraqi journalists struggle to access official information A draft Right of Access to Information Law, approved by the Council of Ministers and referred to parliament, remains under discussion as lawmakers consider amendments to some of its provisions. The legislation aims to strengthen transparency and allow citizens, journalists, and researchers to request official data, but has not yet taken effect. Interviewed by Shafaq News, Wissam al-Mulla, a member of the Alliance for the Defense of Freedom of Expression in Iraq, described the absence of official spokespersons at many ministries as a major obstacle for journalists seeking information from government institutions and other organizations.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/Iraqi-journalists-struggle-to-access-official-information Israeli finance minister unveils plan to ‘Judaize’ Negev, Galilee ahead of elections The plan includes establishing 20 new settlements in Galilee and another 20 in the Negev, along with dozens of farms and measures to facilitate migration to areas he described as “strategic,” with the stated goal of bringing 1 million additional Jewish residents to the two regions.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260828-israeli-finance-minister-unveils-plan-to-judaize-negev-galilee-ahead-of-elections/ https://archive.ph/xWJNz US cuts off major Egyptian bank from global financial system "The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a rule that would revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking access to US financial institutions. Treasury assesses that Banque Misr UAE is a critical node for the Iranian regime’s access to U.S. dollars," the Treasury said. "Operation Economic Outcast" was announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday as part of Washington's efforts to squeeze Iran amid the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Mountains Gave Birth to a Mouse: MKP Within the parliamentary arithmetic, there were those who, like the DEM Party, approached the issue with optimism, offering the lesser of two evils, as well as those who took a direct critical approach. Of course, those who signed and those who did not sign the draft law also began to reveal their stance. It is possible to interpret this dual, and perhaps even triple, difference in attitude as normal reactions in accordance with the principle of democracy. However, it is obvious that where there is no democracy, these reactions and differences do not, and will not, develop on the basis of this principle. In this case, it would not be wrong, and would be accurate, to say that bourgeois and bourgeois clique interests lead to differences in reactions and attitudes. Therefore, it would not be a prophecy to argue that the current differences in reactions and attitudes will continue to sharpen during the legalization process of the bill. It is clear that the ongoing debates and cracks will have much more to say. Without needing to say more about the bourgeois squabbles, we move on to our main topic…
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/36397/ Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan on the August 23rd parliamentary elections "On August 23, Kazakhstan held elections to the unicameral parliament, the Kurultai, as part of the constitutional reform that had been carried out. As a result, the main presidential party, “Adilet,” which was established just a few months ago, along with other parties representing large capital, secured more than 70 percent of the seats in the legislative body. The party of large agrarian capitalists, “Auyl,” came second in the parliament, receiving only 6.26 percent. The other three parties — the CPC, “Ak Zhol,” and “Respublika” — made it into parliament by overcoming the five percent threshold, with minor differences between them in terms of fractions of a percent. Only two associations remained outside the legislative body: the Green Party “Baitak” and the former pro government “communists” party, the People’s Party of Kazakhstan. The main outcome was the consolidation of all political entities around the current president, Kassym Jomart Tokayev, and his party, as part of the restructuring of the political system and the removal of all poss
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Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn The Clean Air Act requires “minor” air polluters to disclose to the public via state agencies how much pollution their proposed project will release, but the proposed new rule from Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would dismantle that protection for datacenter proposals. Instead, it would make disclosure voluntary at state and some local officials’ discretion.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/datacenters-air-pollution-epa US Postal Service says new mail ballot rules tied to Trump order are in effect The Trump administration has sought to impose new rules requiring state election leaders to submit their voter rolls for inspection as part of a broader bid to increase federal government oversight over voting and elections. The post office requirements stem from an executive order issued by Trump earlier this year, requiring the post office to refrain from delivering ballots for mail-in voting to registered voters deemed ineligible when compared to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal records.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/us-postal-service-mail-ballot-rules-trump-order FAA moves to fire two controllers who left work before fatal LaGuardia collision, sources say Several controllers interviewed by Reuters described the workload that night as busy and said other controllers would typically be brought in or stay on past their normal shift end time to manage the heavier-than-scheduled number of flights. One controller told Reuters that there has been a push nationwide by the FAA to crack down on employees leaving on break at the end of their shift and not coming back.
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Military Deployment in Bolivia’s Roads Anticipating New Blockades The government of Rodrigo Paz has deployed Police and Military units after the announcement of road blockades in different areas of Bolivia. In June this year, the government issued a decree to deploy the repression forces of the State before popular protests, such as the road blockades. Therefore, the government imposed a state of exception, which is still ongoing and will last another 22 days.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/26/military-deployment-in-bolivias-roads-anticipating-new-blockades/ Venezuela: Opposition Lawmaker Ecarri Proposes Dollarization Plan Ecarri, a National Assembly Deputy from Alianza del Lápiz, has hired US economist Steve Hanke as an advisor for his plan to change the national currency. …. Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University academic who served in the Reagan administration, has advised countries such as Ecuador and Zimbabwe on similar initiatives. In an article for business magazine Fortune, he confirmed that he has already drafted “a bill for the Venezuelan parliament.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-opposition-lawmaker-ecarri-proposes-dollarization-plan/ U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves. "Calling this deal huge would be an understatement," one of the officials said. "It is massive." Adding pressure to get the deal signed: the wars in Iran and Ukraine, which have disrupted global oil supplies and raised prices.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks https://archive.ph/HRScX Israeli forces set to deploy troops to West Bank as settler attacks continue The move was justified by Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir, who said that amid the upcomi
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The Conspiracy Is Us Some of the documents that have been released by the Federal Government during discovery for the case of the MN15 are telling. The 15 are community activists, union activists and officers who were charged by the Feds with conspiracy to inflict harm and commit violence against ICE agents; the latter were carrying out their “duty” of abducting, injuring, and murdering civilians on the streets of the Twin Cities. The defendants face prison terms of anywhere from five to twenty years. The hub-and-spoke network diagram of 18 organizations that the government says they believe were part of, related to, or financially supporting a vast criminal conspiracy to do violence against and obstruct the lawful work of Federal agents. With the word “CONSPIRACY” written in all caps across the top of the page, the document purports to expose the super secret illegal collaboration between a sprawling web of “domestic terrorists” or “Antifa” (a term made up by the right to describe a non-existent organization: Antifa is actually just shorthand for “anti-fascist,” a label that one would hope nearly any well-informed resident of the U.S. could get behind). In the middle of the circle is Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN), the organization alleged to be (literally) “at the center” of this so-called conspiracy, with lines connecting each of the orgs to that hub, like the spokes on a wheel.
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-conspiracy-is-us/ No, the Democratic Party is not shifting on Israel We have now reached a point where the shift in attitudes towards Israel can no longer be ignored. A May poll by New York Times/Siena suggested that nearly three-quarters of Democratic voters did not approve of aid for Israel. Another survey by Quinnipiac University showed that 66 percent of Democrats thought the US was too supportive of Israel. A poll published in April by Pew Research found that 80 percent of Democrats viewed Israel unfavourably – up from 53 percent in 2022. These numbers have made the Democratic leadership realise that open support for genocidaires is becoming too costly politically. Democratic voters, who watched a livestreamed genocide, clearly no longer see Palestine as a secondary issue in their political and moral choices. This awareness has finally come after Democratic leaders sp
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‘Still Crickets’: Warren Reminds RFK Jr. of Pledge to Publish Secret Trump Deals With Big Pharma Nearly two weeks after US Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote to the Trump administration’s top health official in her latest attempt to get answers on “secret pricing deals” with Big Pharma, the Massachusetts Democrat said Wednesday that she is still waiting for the White House to make the terms of the agreements public.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-big-pharma Labor Department taps tech giants for AI jobs data The private sector data would supplement traditional government statistics, giving BLS more information about how companies are adopting AI and what that could mean for workers. Sonderling said the findings will be made public.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/labor-department-tech-giants-ai-jobs-data https://archive.ph/PogqT Trump signs order banning some foreign equipment from US energy grid Under the order, certain foreign-produced bulk-power system electric equipment, including associated critical software and digital capabilities that could pose cybersecurity or operational risks, will be barred from being purchased or installed in the United States, the White House said in a statement. The order also asks the U.S. Energy Secretary to impose conditions on the continued use and operation of such equipment to address concerns identified by the Trump administration, the White House added.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-signs-order-banning-some-foreign-equipment-us-energy-grid-2026-08-26/ Brooklyn Dems pass rules to stymie reformers Reformers aligned with Peña vowed to re-file a suit to block the changes in court Wednesday morning, arguing the manner the rules were changed was illegal. A judge already denied a motion to halt the vote Monday, ruling there hadn’t been any harm yet. “I’m disappointed, mostly because t
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Community dangles SACP hat to rejected ANC candidate councillor in Madibeng A councillor chosen by the ANC branch under the Madibeng municipality is being rejected by the party in favour of another candidate, prompting some community members to push for their preferred candidate to contest the ward under the South African Communist Party (SACP) banner. Councillor John Raletele has been approached to stand as an SACP candidate after the ANC moved to reject his nomination for another term as ward councillor in Madibeng.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-26-community-dangles-sacp-hat-to-rejected-anc-candidate-councillor-in-madibeng/ https://archive.ph/cMIDQ Dozens killed in rebel attacks on Sudan’s Kordofan, medical group says A medical organisation has accused a Sudanese rebel group aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing 27 people, including four children, in the southern province of South Kordofan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said the killings were carried out by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) in Qardud and Abu Hamama, areas inhabited by the Otoro tribe in South Kordofan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/dozens-killed-in-rebel-attacks-on-sudans-kordofan-medical-group-says https://archive.ph/gQEl5 US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems. Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Action is now sanctioned in the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and service
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South African CP, Council of the Left constituted: Now we must organise The inaugural meeting of the Council of the Left took place on Friday, 21 August 2026, at Birchwood Hotel, bringing together representatives of political organisations, trade unions, social movements, community organisations and other progressive formations that participated in the Conference of the Left held in May this year. The meeting formally constituted the Council of the Left and began the important task of translating the Declaration and Programme of Action of the Conference of the Left into organisation, campaigning and collective action. This inaugural Council meeting committed to unity in action, working-class organisation and an immediate programme of struggle focused on: Joining the ongoing mass campaign to reject and defeat the anti-poor Prevention of Illegal Evictions Act Amendment Bill, Defending the Expropriation Act against attacks from the DA, Afriforum, Die Vaderland Stigting and the Free Market Foundation through a combination of court action and mass mobilisation. Mobilising for the Equitable Access to Land Bill to become an effective law for land redistribution and the security of tenure. Using the coming Budget days to campaign for fiscal resources to meet basic needs and address the cost of living. Mobilisation for Parliament to debate and adopt a Cuba Solidarity Bill, together with continued material support for the people of Cuba.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/South-African-CP-Council-of-the-Left-constituted-Now-we-must-organise/ Centrists Despise Hasan Piker More Than They Want to Win El-Sayed’s primary win was a shock to the system for Democratic centrists, involving not just the victory of a pro-Palestine, Medicare for All–supporting progressive in a key battleground state but also one in which the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) didn’t endorse yet played a key role. This put establishment Democrats in a bit of an awkward position: they have long claimed the Left habitually refuses to “vote blue no matter who” come the general election and so pave the way for GOP victories. This wasn’t actually true, but it’s been one of the Democratic center’s most reliable go-to attack lines against their left flank. With the table
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House Dems' pro-Israel wing gains power on key panel In addition to Moskowitz leading Democrats on the MENA subcommittee, pro-Israel Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Wesley Bell (D-Mo.) were appointed to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/democrats-israel-moskowitz-house-foreign-affairs https://archive.ph/zK1im FBI raided Spanish vacation rental of wealthy leftwing funder James ‘Fergie’ Cox after his arrest Baltasar Garzón, a human rights lawyer representing Chambers, revealed the details in an exclusive interview. Chambers is wanted for extradition by the Trump administration for alleged financial support of Hamas, as well as other charges. Garzón, one of Europe’s most famous human rights lawyers, characterized the case as “very strange, one of the most remarkable I’ve worked on”. He told the Guardian the indictment against Chambers was “pretty weak and diffuse”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/fbi-raid-james-fergie-cox-vacation-rental Billionaire-Backed Groups Launch Ad Blitz Against California Wealth Tax The two most prominent groups fighting the tax, which will appear on California’s November ballot as Proposition 40, are Building a Better California and Californians Against Wasteful Spending and Higher Taxes. The former group, funded in large part by Brin, debuted its first television ad on Tuesday, just the start of what’s expected to be a massive propaganda push against the proposed tax.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-ads-wealth-tax El-Sayed pushes to keep affordability message focus amid scrutiny from both sides In each instance, El-Sayed tried relentlessly to stay on message. On Fox, he called opponent Mike Rogers a “beta” and took a jab at Pete Hegseth in a response to a question about the federal deficit, saying Watters didn’t seem concerned that the defense sec
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Israeli lawmaker smashes Palestinian memorial in occupied West Bank Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer. In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain. “We must take it down,” he said, adding that he wanted the memorial destroyed because children growing up in the village and passing it would be inspired to become “martyrs” themselves.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-lawmaker-smashes-palestinian-memorial-occupied-west-bank Israeli forces raid UNRWA training centre in occupied East Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incursion was lawful. In a post on X, he said: “In accordance with my directive and following the law we passed, the evacuation of the UNRWA compound in Kafr Aqab, Jerusalem, began today.” After the raid, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Jerusalem Municipality had already commenced work to transform the property into a new educational and community complex.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/25/israeli-forces-raid-unrwa-training-centre-in-occupied-east-jerusalem https://archive.ph/OGW6r Polish prosecutors charge MEP with Holocaust denial over Auschwitz ‘fake’ claim Poland sought to strip Braun of his parliamentary immunity over the remarks, and the European Parliament approved the request in March. Braun, who has a long record of antisemitic rhetoric, is already on trial over separate alleged offenses, including his use of a fire extinguisher to disrupt a Hanukkah celebration in the Polish parliament in 2023.
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CP of Ireland, Do not ignore the root causes of the cost of living crisis! The cost-of-living crisis has not disappeared and is set to get worse over the coming year. Prices are far above their 2021 level and the next pressure is likely to come again through essentials: energy, food, clothing, transport, heating and housing. These basics are already up multiples of wage increases and every worker now feels the pain during the weekly shop. The return to school is getting harder and harder for families every year. In the Republic, inflation is estimated at around 3.4% currently, with energy prices up 6.5% over the year. In the North, inflation rose to 2.9% in July, driven by household energy costs. The European Central Bank has warned that inflation could hit 5% in 2027 with basic food items rising significantly.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Ireland-Do-not-ignore-the-root-causes-of-the-cost-of-living-crisis/ Whatever Happened to the ‘Enough Is Enough’ Campaign? Launched in August, Enough Is Enough promised to “turn anger” at the cost of living crisis “into action”. It was, by any measure, an overnight sensation. 150,000 people signed up on the first day alone; 450,000 by a fortnight later. Tens of thousands attended rallies nationwide, wanting to hear how to join a political movement to “win back dignity for working class people”. But just a few months later, Enough Is Enough went pretty much silent. No more rallies. No more speeches. Just the odd post from a Twitter account. The most dynamic new campaign on the UK left had disappeared – and no-one seemed to know why. “It feels like a missed opportunity,” said Thomas. “I felt annoyed. What was the point? Was it just a mailing list?” Four years on, Novara Media spoke to nine co-founders, coordinating group members, organisers and key stakeholders – some of whom chose not to be named to protect their professional relationships – to find out what happened. Their recollections paint a picture of overwhelm, strategic contradiction and a desire for total control. Enough Is Enough didn’t collapse by accident: it was undone by the very organisations that created it.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters sentenced over blocking Golden Gate Bridge traffic in 2024 Defense attorneys said demonstrators acted out of a moral responsibility to oppose the devastation from Israeli strikes on Gaza and Washington's support for its ally. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the protest caused a safety risk for those stuck in traffic and there should be consequences when laws are broken. "Throughout history, civil disobedience has mostly involved accepting legal consequences," Superior Court Judge Teresa Caffese was quoted as saying by KQED.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/pro-palestinian-protesters-sentenced-over-blocking-golden-gate-bridge-traffic-2026-08-24/ Trump Regulators Issue Key Permit for Proposed $100 Million Underwater Data Center Off Maine Coast Residents of Eastport, Maine are set to attend a public hearing Monday evening on two proposed ordinances to halt the construction of large artificial intelligence data centers, with proponents of the proposals hoping the coastal city’s planning board will be able to prevent the build-out of a 27-acre, $100 million facility that a Massachusetts-based developer aims to build underwater—right near Eastport’s working waterfront.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/maine-data-center Pressure Mounts on Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair to Abandon Rule Changes Reformers filed a lawsuit Monday, asking a judge to block Tuesday’s vote with a temporary restraining order, Hell Gate first reported. But the first judge assigned to the case recused themselves, saying they may seek renomination from the Brooklyn Democratic Party. A second judge declined to block the vote ahead of time, and reformers planned to refile the suit after Tuesday’s vote if it goes ahead.
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Chileans mark World Water Day by protesting President Kast’s rollback of environmental rules The decrees rolled back by Kast’s administration had been signed during the government of left-wing former Chilean leader Gabriel Boric, whom Kast replaced as president earlier this month. The demonstration, called by several environmental organizations under the slogan “Don’t ‘Kast-igate’ Nature,” drew thousands more participants in 15 cities across the country.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-water-day-president-kast-protest-755a101737bc52ef66417905b0835ea5 Argentine Professors Call 48-Hour Strike Over Funding Law Public universities are not receiving the funding established by the law, despite Supreme Court rulings ordering its implementation. This delay affects both the day-to-day operation of the institutions and the payment of faculty salaries and student scholarships. Argentine unions denounce that salary adjustments in recent months resulted from unilateral decisions, without formal collective bargaining, and were far below inflation. On Sunday, they also warn that they will intensify protests if the Milei administration does not offer concrete responses.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-university-professors-call-48-hour-strike-over-funding-law/ Venezuelan Parliament Approves Law to ‘Protect’ Real Estate Developers The law also establishes fines for delays in submitting documents, permit failures, non-compliance with regulations, and violations of preventive measures, among other offenses. At the same time, the legislative project establishes incentives for private sector constructors such as greater flexibility to set prices, an end to a prior existing 24-month deadline for completing certain projects, and modified conditions benefiting sellers should buyers fail to make payments. The bill also eliminated the lending banks’ liability in case the real estate project is not completed. For buyers, the change removes one of the parties they could potentially hold accountable in case the purchased home is not delivered.
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Puerto Ricans Fight Back Against Water Rationing and Privatization amid Severe Drought The government of Puerto Rico is rationing water in San Juan and other major cities as a severe drought continues to worsen, with no immediate relief expected. Since August 7, more than 180,000 customers are facing 48-hour water interruptions under a rotating schedule, as the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (AAA) and the island’s government work to address the escalating crisis. July was the driest month ever recorded in San Juan in more than 120 years, and the capital’s fourth-hottest July. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, nearly a quarter of Puerto Rico is currently facing severe drought, while an additional 36 percent is experiencing moderate drought. The drought is intensifying, but thousands of Puerto Ricans had already been dealing with water shortages, with some communities going without reliable water for up to a year. Many residents have been denouncing that the infrastructure that supplies water and is under AAA surveillance has not received adequate maintenance for decades, causing 60 percent of the water to be lost. But Puerto Rico’s water crises cannot be separated from its colonial status, the authority the United States has over the island, and complicit political parties.
https://www.leftvoice.org/puerto-rico-water-rationing-privatization/ SKP leader exposes the limits of Swedish democracy: “A democracy for the establishment parties” With less than a month to go before Sweden’s 2026 general election, Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) chairman Andreas Sörensen has denounced what he described as a political system designed to protect the established parliamentary parties and marginalize forces that challenge capitalism. Speaking in Stockholm on August 15, Sörensen argued that Sweden’s much-praised democracy rests on deeply unequal conditions. Parties that surpass 1% in a parliamentary election receive publicly funded ballot papers distributed nationwide, while smaller parties must finance and distribute their own. Parties above 2.5% also receive substantial state funding, while the 4% threshold for entering parliament further shields the established political forces.
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‘Pathetic Stuff’: Jeffries Rebuked Over Secret Meeting With Kushner The New York Times reported Sunday that the two men “met privately in recent weeks” in order to discuss “potential areas of common ground” if the Democrats regain control of one or both chambers of Congress in the midterms.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jeffries-kushner-secret-meeting Far-right instigator among those arrested for probable cause riot in Minneapolis, police say Police say a confrontation between the two groups happened quickly and chemical irritants were used by both sides. Police also say there is no evidence an MPD officer on scene deployed any irritant. Shortly after, police say Lang and the two others fled the scene after their cars were overrun by counter-protesters.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/far-right-jake-lang-rally-arrested-inciting-riot/ ‘I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul’: voters who left over Gaza return for progressive push Polling shows a majority of Democrats oppose military aid to Israel, a position that has slowly gained some traction in Washington. A similar majority of roughly 75% supports the Medicare for All proposed system of universal healthcare and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), three positions shared by El-Sayed. Meanwhile, the Democratic party’s approval rating has reached historic lows, at times sinking lower than Trump’s favorability. “The party is totally lost right now,” Sarwar said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/democrats-abdul-el-sayed-progressives Pete Buttigieg returns to South Carolina as he weighs another White House run There was a standing ovation in a Black church in South Carolina when Buttigieg was credited for helping bring millions of federal dollars to the area for a project as President Joe Biden’s transportation secretary. A second ovation came as Buttigieg gave a speech warning of a country in “big trouble” while laying out his own
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Unite protests outside No 10 North over lack of jobs for NHS-trained workers Next month in the north-west of England alone, 77 newly qualified clinical psychologists will face the prospect of unemployment or leaving the NHS for private practice despite the NHS spending £19.25 million training them over three years, it warns.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-protests-outside-no-10-north-over-lack-jobs-nhs-trained-workers French centre-left candidate launches presidential bid amid divided left Centre-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann on Sunday launched his bid for the French presidency, aiming to unite moderate left-wing voters and challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s influence ahead of France’s 2027 election. With Marine Le Pen leading first-round polls, Glucksmann is seeking to position himself as a pro-European, pro-Ukraine alternative to both the far right and hard left.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260823-glucksmann-launches-french-presidential-bid-as-left-seeks-to-challenge-far-right https://archive.ph/zxwLN Clashes erupt at migrant facility in northern Greece The violence began shortly after 9 p.m. when a group of migrants reportedly tore down part of an internal fence and attacked police with stones. Buildings, common areas, security cameras, firefighting equipment and service vehicles were damaged. One entire wing was destroyed, forcing residents to move to another part of the facility.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1313218/clashes-erupt-at-migrant-facility-in-northern-greece/ https://archive.ph/sCzCJ In Kfarchouba, life is 'a big prison' under Israeli occupation of south Lebanon Post too long. Click here to view the full text. OP/ED News Anon 3.0 22-08-26 02:59:00 No. 2897894
A Look Back at SDS, Michael Harrington and the Decline of Marxism According to a familiar narrative, protest is a kind of parlor game of privileged students. When it occurs on Ivy League campuses, it gets its fair share of attention, creating an impression that social/political movements based on long tradition have their point of origin there. (The 170 students arrested at the City College of New York’s Gaza encampment on April 30, 2024, largely people of color, had a median family income less than a quarter of that of the students arrested at Columbia. The news coverage—of their pepper spraying—and reported tasering—and broken teeth and bones—was delayed a few days and then relegated to the back pages. (See Sarah Baum in the Progressive Magazine) In Campus Wars, Kenneth J. Heineman points out that student mobilization against the Vietnam War–and in support of free speech and the right to organize on campus–arose initially at publicly funded state universities. Enmeshed in a hot war and a cold war, awash in DoD grants for war-related research, the universities assumed a division of labor: Elite schools turned out foreign policy “experts”; while state schools supplied teachers and engineers for the home front as well as international policing experts needed to shore up the unpopular South Vietnamese government.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/21/a-look-back-at-sds-michael-harrington-and-the-decline-of-marxism/ Liberalism’s Cult of the Individual Has Failed Us Is it better to “bowl alone” than to join anything that smacks of a sect? Were the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps, which put millions to work rebuilding their country, just state-sanctioned “cults?” According to one prominent liberal: maybe! In an article entitled “No, Senator Murphy, I don’t want to join your cult,” Jerusalem Demsas, the liberal publisher of The Argument magazine, goes after Democratic Senator Chris Murphy for daring to argue that we ought to have some shared social commitment to the public good. For Murphy, Americans — particularly young men — are living through an epidemic of loneliness that’s not only corroding our democracy but destroying the social bonds that hold our society together. These men, par
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'Stop gaslighting me!': Florida Democrats' Senate nominee and party chair have heated call over socialism "Nikki wants her to back away from DSA, from socialism," said one person who spoke with Nixon. "She's listening to other people saying that they're afraid, they're scared — the Jewish members and the Hispanic caucus. But to Angie, Nikki doesn't want Angie to be who Angie is. Angie has already done the backing-away." On the call, Nixon told Fried, "You never gave a care about me from the beginning, and now you're telling me how to run my campaign?" according to the source. At one point, the source said, Nixon yelled, "stop gaslighting me!"
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/florida-democrats-angie-nixon-nikki-fried-socialism https://archive.ph/8C0bC US Postal Service issues rules to tighten mail-in voting if court gives OK USPS said it was issuing its 95-page rule so it could take immediate effect if a court lifted its injunctions on it and be in place for the upcoming election. Under the rule, USPS would not deliver ballots in states that do not comply with the rule's new standards.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-postal-service-issues-rules-tighten-mail-in-voting-if-court-gives-ok-2026-08-22/ Trump threatens $5bn lawsuit over liberal national guard policy report The report released 13 July argues that the National Guard deployment in Washington DC, Memphis and Los Angeles failed to have a measurable impact on crime in these cities despite an estimated cost of $1.7bn. The report looks at the falling rate of crime in cities without a National Guard intervention and concludes that they are not statistically different from the rate of decrease in those that had the intervention, noting that violent crime began falling well before Trump took office in 2025.
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Mazloum Abdi announces full integration of SDF as ‘new phase’ begins Several brigades have since been formed for SDF fighters who joined the Syrian army, with former SDF commanders leading them. Damascus has also appointed a former SDF commander as deputy defense minister for the eastern region. Abdi also said Kurdish fighters who had arrived in northeast Syria (Rojava) from Kurdish regions in Iraq, Iran and Turkey to help defend the Kurdish enclave against attacks, including those by the Islamic State, have now left Syria.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/syria/1078920 Protests continue in Tunisia demanding the ousting of the president Mobilised by a new opposition collective, the demonstrators pleaded for improvements to basic utility services and an end to medicine shortages, rising living costs and restrictions on freedoms. Some denounced what they described as the president’s failure to meet the people’s demands since he was elected seven years ago.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protests-continue-tunisia-demanding-ousting-president RSF turns to tribal mobilisation after Sudan battlefield losses The new recruitment drive marks a return to a strategy that has played a central role in the RSF's expansion since long before the outbreak of Sudan's current war in April 2023. The paramilitary force developed out of armed networks recruited heavily from communities in Darfur, and tribal mobilisation has remained an important source of manpower throughout the conflict. In July 2023, only months after fighting erupted between the RSF and army, leaders of seven predominantly Arab tribes gathered in Nyala and publicly announced their support for the paramilitary force.
https://www.newarab.com/news/rsf-turns-tribal-mobilisation-after-sudan-battlefield-losses Indian workers in Israel demand accountability after murder of Indian caregiver Israeli authorities have since indicted Avior Zaken, the grandson of
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(TrueAnon )Episode 571: Drugs and Thugs We are joined by Jack Poulson to talk about a little-known State Department agency that is sending machine guns to Ukraine, hiring mercenaries in Mexico, and selling AI to Colombia.
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https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-571-and-167200550 AOC and Mamdani Should Stop Throwing the Black Lives Matter Movement Under the Bus In 2020, a record number of people across the United States took to the streets in the movement for Black lives, demanding justice for George Floyd and victims of police violence. Last week, two of the country’s most popular progressives — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — threw this historic movement under the bus. Speaking to ABC, AOC said that, “Woke 1 was crazy” — a phrase attributed to a tweet by New York City Council member Chi Ossé, referencing his social media posts from 2020. Days later, Mamdani more explicitly repudiated a key demand of the uprising, saying: “I’ve made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police.” But what’s actually “crazy” is calling yourself a socialist while believing in peaceful coexistence with the police.
https://www.leftvoice.org/aoc-mamdani-woke-1/ ( 1995) Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm part 1: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism by Murray Bookchin This short work was written to deal with the fact that anarchism stands at a turning point in its long and turbulent history. At a time when popular distrust of the state has reached extraordinary proportions in many countries; when the division of society among a handful of opulently wealthy individuals and corporations contrasts sharply with the growing impoverishment of millions of people on a scale unprecedented since the Great Depression decade; when the intensity of exploitation has forced people in growing numbers to accept a work week of a length typical of the
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Nonprofit sues over US push to auction areas of water around American Samoa for potential mining It noted that the U.S. plans to sell leases with the intention of allowing mining across some 33 million acres (13.4 million hectares) of seabed off American Samoa that is rich in minerals including nickel, cobalt and manganese that are used to build batteries, electronics and other products. The lawsuit stated that the U.S. first must ensure that such activity will not destroy critical habitats or push species closer to extinction.
https://apnews.com/article/us-sued-deep-sea-mining-earthjustice-american-samoa-ca8adde08a645e0471a017e98c645836 Senate Democrats question USDA about data errors, staff losses Six senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, sent a letter to USDA Deputy Under Secretary Michelle Bekkering seeking details about USDA's data procedures amid growing concerns among farmers, grain merchants and investors about market-moving data produced by the agency.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/senate-democrats-question-usda-about-data-errors-staff-losses-2026-08-20/ Man suffered brain injury and severe bruising after ICE arrest in Virginia, records show José Mejía Hernández, 45, was walking to a bus stop in Arlington on the morning of 11 August when two agents got out of an unmarked vehicle and started chasing him, according to one of his lawyers, Margaret Hellerstein. The man recalled being hit by some kind of stun gun, but did not remember what happened after that, only waking up hours later in the hospital, Hellerstein said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/ice-arrest-brain-injury-virginia ‘It kept adding up’: how add-on utility fees can lead to eviction for tenants For more affluent tenants, Rubs can be an u
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Chinese court sentences founder of troubled property developer Evergrande to life in prison The decision marks a milestone in Evergrande’s saga after it defaulted on more than $300 billion in liabilities when Chinese authorities cracked down on excessive borrowing in the real estate industry in 2020. That triggered a crunch among many developers and brought on a downturn in the property market that has weighed on the broader economy ever since.
https://apnews.com/article/china-evergrande-founder-real-estate-fraud-5573868904b3ced0c5c9b0314c56ae5a Philippines army, PNP attempt to block relief distribution in Camarines Norte The groups launched the RDO to deliver food and aid to residents of Brgy. Lukbanan who continue to suffer the effects of Super El Niño. For several days, members of The Good Samaritan and BMDR have been subjected to surveillance, intimidation and illegal photography. Despite this, the groups remained resolute in delivering service to communities in need.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/afp-pnp-attempt-to-block-relief-distribution-in-camarines-norte/ Myanmar military chief visits Bangkok as diplomatic offensive continues Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup, was sworn in as president of Myanmar in April, handing the office of military leader to Ye Win Oo. Thai military chief Ukris Boontanondha met Oo on Thursday at a Bangkok hotel. The talks between them focused on cooperation on the nation’s 2,400km (1,500-mile) border, according to Bangkok.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/20/myanmar-military-chief-visits-bangkok-as-diplomatic-offensive-continues https://archive.ph/jvwWe Australia ‘outraged’ over Israeli decision not to open criminal probe into killing of Gaza aid worker According to Ms Wong, drone audio from the attack had still not b
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Clownish Start For Trump Puppet in Colombia If Abelardo de la Espriella’s first four days are any indication of what his entire term will be like, we are in for some very dark comedy over the next four years. Here are eight highlights from his inauspicious beginning. (1) On Inauguration Day a clip of him looking like a fool marching in place and saluting during military honors went viral after it was seen to have his own military officers looking at him with a look of bewilderment as to what on earth he thought he was doing. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department revealed that Colombia will receive a $1 billion support package for its participation in Trump’s Shield of the Americas project, which uses the drug war as a pretext to attack political enemies. A car bomb exploding the same day seemed to highlight the renewed chaos such policies are sinking the country into.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/18/clownish-start-for-trump-puppet-in-colombia/ Air ‘con’: Climate culture war heats up as temperatures rise While countless families, schools, hospitals, and workplaces struggle to cope in this summer’s scorching temperatures, the capitalists are taking the opportunity to pit climate activists against ordinary people. There have been three heatwaves in Britain since 1 May. In May and June alone, 2,877 people are estimated to have died due to extreme heat. Several regions have seen their hottest and driest July days ever recorded. These sustained and elevated temperatures have led to a surge in demand for air conditioning, in homes and businesses. The UK has seen a 249 percent rise in demand for aircon units since 1 May. Going further back, the number of air-conditioned homes in Britain has doubled in the last four years. But the burning question is: who will pay the bill for keeping workers cool; for making our living and working conditions safe? Of course, the bosses, bankers, and landlords don’t want to foot the cost for this. That is why some bourgeois commentators are cynically casting doubts about the need for air conditioning – whipping up a climate culture war over this question. “Is [air conditioning] a central protection against extreme heat,” certain media outlets ask, “or a luxury the planet cannot afford?” But ordinary people suffering i
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Epstein client Leon Black threatened with contempt by House panel chair The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee has threatened to hold the private equity investor Leon Black in contempt if he does not fully cooperate with the panel’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, amid accusations that the billionaire is purposely delaying and disrupting the panel’s inquiry.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/leon-black-epstein-house-contempt Pentagon quizzes NATO allies on political loyalty, documents reveal The Pentagon has handed NATO allies of the United States a long list of questions about whether they are adhering to President Donald Trump’s vision for the transatlantic alliance, according to documents obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/pentagon-quizzes-nato-allies-on-political-loyalty-documents-reveal https://archive.ph/fjSFH US treasury doubles debt buyback to steady bond market amid inflation fears The US treasury is doubling its buyback of government debt in an effort to balance out the bond market as officials at the US Federal Reserve remain divided over how to deal with high inflation. The yield rate on 10-year, 20-year and 30-year treasury notes all hit 20-year highs this week, with the 30-year treasury yield rising to its highest rate since 2007. The rapid rise was concerning news for borrowers as major loans, including mortgages, are backed by treasuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/19/us-treasury-doubles-debt-buyback-bond-market The stakes of Josh Shapiro's data center pivot The shift in political tone is unmistakable. While his May rollout talked up strict standards, it also said the state is looking to compete on "innovation," and he's previously been more welcoming. The vibes were different yesterda
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Amnesty International slams rise of Argentina’s 'surveillance state' Between December 2023, when Milei took office, and December 2025, the Argentine government "implemented a slew of security and intelligence reforms and expanded their use of surveillance technologies," the report said. "These measures constitute an intensification of state monitoring capacities… aimed at controlling and deterring protest and increasing authoritarian practices," it added.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/amnesty-international-slams-rise-of-argentinas-surveillance-state.phtml https://archive.ph/wCXC4 Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil’s future after Petrobras strikes new find The exploratory drilling began in October. Environmental and Indigenous groups have since sued the Brazilian government and Petrobras to halt exploration, arguing the licensing process failed to properly consult traditional communities, underestimated spill risks and did not adequately assess climate impacts. The company has long argued it has never caused spills in its drillings.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-oil-petrobras-amazon-drilling-9ad1dd2eb5a7932c2738c904fcaa73cc Adviser to far-right Latin American leaders arrested for allegedly plotting to kill girlfriend The businessman and political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, 42, had been working as an adviser to the Bolivian president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, and was one of the main strategists behind Javier Milei’s campaign in Argentina’s 2023 presidential election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/fernando-cerimedo-adviser-far-right-latin-american-leaders-arrested-allegedly-plotting-kill-girlfriend Colombia’s government publishes “white paper” on corruption by Petro Post too long. Click here to view the full text. OP/ED News Anon 3.0 18-08-26 23:28:57 No. 2895410
Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis As many Puerto Ricans were scrambling to find water for drinking, cleaning, and bathing, the archipelago marked a perverse milestone: the tenth anniversary of PROMESA. In response to Puerto Rico’s deepening debt crisis, President Barack Obama signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) bill into law on June 30, 2016. PROMESA created a federally appointed fiscal control board to oversee the archipelago’s finances. La junta, as the fiscal control board is colloquially known, is empowered through PROMESA to override the commonwealth government and implement austerity measures in order to service the debt. The unelected members of la junta are either imbricated within the networks of Puerto Rico’s criollo elites or are part of the international finance sector with zero ties to the archipelago whatsoever. While PROMESA promised to bring relief to Puerto Ricans suffering under conditions of financial precarity, there is no doubt that things have only gotten worse for the average Puerto Rican since its passage.
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/puerto-rico-water-crisis-debt-privatization Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, Freedom for Aziz Khakimov and all political prisoners in the countries of the Organization of Turkic States In Uzbekistan, the well known blogger and left wing activist Aziz Khakimov was given a harsh sentence of 4 years and 2 months in prison for speaking out against the rehabilitation of the leaders of the Basmachi movement of 1918-1944. His only “crime” was that he called them murderers and executioners of the people! Officially, Aziz was charged with “inciting hatred,” as he allegedly insulted the “heroes of the nation” in his speeches — those who were repressed by the “Russian communists.” The fact that hundreds of leaders of Basmachi bands, who were acquitted, killed, tortured, burned, stole livestock, robbed trains, carried out terrorist attacks, and at various times worked for Turkish, British, and later Nazi intelligence, are no longer seen as crimes in Tashkent, but as a “struggle for national liberation.” The only thing that was dropped from Khakimov was the absurd charge of “war propaganda” when he used Soviet posters from the period of the Great Patriotic
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Antiwar Mothers Resist the Reactivation of US Military Bases in Puerto Rico News of the reactivation came not through official sources but through the grapevine. Residents in Ceiba contacted Madres Contra la Guerra to report activity on the base. Neighbors felt their houses shake in the middle of the night. In November 2025, the organization heard that the use of air space between Roosevelt Roads, the international airport, and Vieques had been prohibited and wondered what the reason was. Fears that officials were re-arming the base to attack Venezuela were confirmed when, on January 3, 2026, the Pentagon launched Operation Absolute Resolve, invading Caracas and ousting President Nicolás Maduro.
https://truthout.org/articles/antiwar-mothers-resist-the-reactivation-of-us-military-bases-in-puerto-rico/ Trump administration pursues Kilmar Ábrego García on previously dismissed charges The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to reinstate criminal charges against Kilmar Ábrego García that were dismissed in May by a judge who said the prosecution of the man who unwittingly became a symbol of the White House’s mass deportation campaign was “vindictive in nature”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-charges Senator presses Hegseth, Caine for commitment to keep US military out of the midterm elections Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday to confirm he won’t send U.S. troops to polling places during November’s midterm elections, as Democrats have raised concerns that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with the vote.
https://apnews.com/article/slotkin-hegseth-military-midterm-elections-trump-f1f7d71f7874eecc08db52e80a715bcb AIPAC has a new target to exert influence over Democrats AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, poured nearly $2.5 million i
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Bolivia’s Eastern Agricultural Chamber Rejects Diesel Price Decree The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) of Bolivia rejected Decree 5676 of the right-wing government of Rodrigo Paz, which raises the price of diesel for large consumers, and called an extraordinary congress in defense of the sector amid warnings about possible food supply risks.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivias-eastern-agricultural-chamber-rejects-diesel-price-decree/ Uruguay's only industrial brewer negotiates cutting 80 jobs or ending production Fábricas Nacionales de Cerveza (FNC), Uruguay's only industrial beer producer, is negotiating with the government and the trade union a restructuring that would cut 80 of the 400 jobs at its Montevideo and Minas plants. The company keeps a second scenario on the table, which the parties involved regard as less likely: abandoning local production and operating as an importer, with a workforce reduced to around 100 employees.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/17/uruguay-s-only-industrial-brewer-negotiates-cutting-80-jobs-or-ending-production Zambian President Hichilema re-elected for second term According to the Electoral Commission of Zambia, President Hichilema won with 2,965,326 votes and his closest competitor was opposition leader Brian Mundubile, who won 1,856,217 votes, about 38 per cent. President Hichilema welcomed the results and thanked Zambians, but also reached out to those who voted for the opposition.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/zambian-president-hichilema-re-elected-second-term Pakistan top court orders Imran Khan’s hospital transfer amid access battle Uzair Bhandari, one of Khan’s lawyers, told Al Jazeera the three-member bench on Tuesday also ordered a medical board be formed to oversee Khan’s treatment, including the former prime minister’s sister Dr Uzma Khan and his personal physician Dr Faisal Sultan. “The c
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Egyptian CP, Message from Egyptian CP The Egyptian Communist Party has received the joint statement concerning the events that took place in the Egyptian-Sudanese border region, and what it contained in terms of condemning what it described as Egyptian military incursions and aggressions. While we appreciate the sentiments of solidarity with the brotherly Sudanese people and the concern of sister parties to defend Sudan's sovereignty and the rights of its people, we find it necessary to make some observations before taking our final position on the statement. The Egyptian Communist Party reaffirms its firm stance on the unity of the Egyptian and Sudanese peoples, the depth of the historical ties between them, and its rejection of any infringement on the sovereignty and independence of either country. It also affirms its absolute rejection of the loss of civilian and worker lives as victims of armed conflicts or military operations. At the same time, the information available to us so far does not enable us to independently ascertain that the Egyptian armed forces carried out military operations inside Sudanese territory. The official position of the Egyptian side affirms that the tasks of the armed forces and police in this area were aimed at combating illegal gold prospecting and pursuing illegal mining gangs, and that they took place within Egyptian territory and in border areas.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Egyptian-CP-Message-from-Egyptian-CP/ Zeitung der Arbeit : 65 years since the construction of the Berlin Wall – The GDR and the Cold War Sixty-five years ago today (13 August), the “Berlin Wall” was erected. Bourgeois media and all manner of “experts” are once again using the anniversary as an opportunity to wage their anti-communist propaganda campaign and engage in sweeping historical revisionism. Dictatorship, totalitarianism, an “unjust regime,” evil — there is seemingly no end to the labels attached to the German Democratic Republic. Terror, we are told, was omnipresent, with the Wall and the Stasi presented as its ultimate symbols. Not a word is said about the origins of the GDR, its achievements, or the historical context in which the Wall was built. Even basic facts and figures concerning border security are largely ignored, because they
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Puerto Rico Rations Water to 180,000 Properties Amid Drought The cuts affect seven regions normally supplied by the reservoir and are disrupting water service for hundreds of thousands of people. As the rationing takes effect, residents in affected areas have been lining up at water trucks sent to distribute supplies. Puerto Rico recorded its driest July on record, while 68% of the island is currently experiencing drought conditions, according to the government. The U.S. Drought Monitor classifies conditions across most of the territory as moderate to severe.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/puerto-rico-rations-water-amid-drought/ US Navy destroyer adrift in South China Sea for four days after losing power The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer which had been sailing with the George Washington carrier strike group, was reported to have been towed to Subic Bay in the Philippines, according to the US Naval Institute News, an independent military publication.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/us-navy-destroyer-south-china-sea Mamdani backs new protections for workers delivering packages The Delivery Protection Act, sponsored by New York City Council Member Tiffany L. Cabán, would increase licensing requirements for companies that operate delivery-focused warehouse facilities, opening the door to expanded safety, training, and resources for delivery workers. Companies like Amazon frequently subcontract last-mile delivery to these types of facilities, leaving workers in a murky gray area without the traditional protections afforded to those who work directly for the retail giants.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mamdani-backs-protections-for-workers-delivering-amazon-packages-in-nyc-2026-8 Alarm raised over ‘privacy dilemma’ of facial recognition technology at Coles and Woolworths The supermarket giants on Monday confirmed they had tested the technology and said th
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SACP takes aim at ANC-run municipalities as it launches election manifesto The SACP said millions of South Africans were working and paying their way through life but were still unable to live with dignity. “Councillors vanish between elections,” the party said, accusing local political representatives of losing touch with the communities they are elected to serve. “This is not the democracy our people fought for. The party’s decision to contest the elections independently marks a significant political departure and is aimed at giving the working class its own candidates and political programme at municipal level.
https://africadaily.co.za/sacp-takes-aim-at-anc-run-municipalities-as-it-launches-election-manifesto/ https://archive.ph/9d50L Observers report intimidation and violence during Zambian elections Calls for a toning down of rhetoric came from observers, including those from the Southern African Development Community and the European Union, as Thursday’s votes continued to be counted. Vote counting was temporarily suspended on Friday following reports of violence against polling staff and the alleged theft of ballot papers. Counting resumed hours later after the electoral commission said the “security threat to the electoral process had been contained,” said Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital, Lusaka.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/observers-report-intimidation-and-violence-during-zambian-elections Germany rethinks law protecting politicians from insults Variations of this view find consensus across Germany’s fractured political spectrum. The far-left Left Party and far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party want the law abolished outright, while the CDU, Greens and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) all support revising it. “Politicians like Friedrich Merz insult ordinary people in this country every day by calling them lazy or malingerers,” said Luke Hoss, a Left lawmaker, referring to the chancellor’s remarks that
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The Pointlessness of Nigel Farage What is culture’s most potent image of pointlessness? There’s Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill, only for it to tumble back down again. Or Escher’s staircases, ascending and descending without end. But perhaps we can now add to the lexicon ‘Farage’s byelection’ – a foregone conclusion, seeing as he was always going to win, against a novelty candidate that was intended to stall an investigation into political donations that will now simply pick up where it left off. Well, at least we all had fun along the way. As you may recall, Nigel Farage resigned in a fit of pique, as he faced mounting scrutiny over his finances. A parliamentary standards investigation had been launched into whether he should have registered a £5m gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, alongside fresh allegations about undeclared support from George Cottrell; an illegitimate campaign cooked up by the brahminical class of Westminster elites, if you take Nigel’s word for it. A “people versus the establishment” byelection (except none of the established parties contested it).
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/14/the-pointlessness-of-nigel-farage/ Hate in the World’s Borough: How the Far-Right Has Flourished in Queens, New York Queens natives have played major roles in the recently resurgent far-right movement. For example, the alt-right celebrity Joseph Jordan (pseudonym “Eric Striker”), born in the largely Asian and Latino neighborhood of Flushing, has co-hosted a white supremacist podcast, written for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, and participated in the Unite the Right rally. According to a 2019 Southern Poverty Law Center report, Jordan’s parents both have Latin American names, and his family still lives in Flushing. Robert Rundo, co-founder of the Rise Against Movement (RAM), a violent white nationalist group with deep connections to the broader neo-Nazi movement, is also from Flushing. Before RAM, Rundo was in a gang called the Original Flushing Crew when he stabbed a member of an MS-13 affiliate. To produce and distribute clothing and music, RAM started the company Will2Rise, which has provided Queens contact information. Will2Rise now makes merchandise for Active Club, an international movement in which Rundo began to train white sup
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Treasury curtails reporting rules for shell companies The move is the latest example of how it's becoming harder to get information about the financial system, even as the ascendance of AI makes it seemingly easier to learn anything you want to know. The rule is part of the Corporate Transparency Act, passed with bipartisan support at the end of President Trump's first term as part of a larger defense bill.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/14/treasury-shell-disclosure-financial https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2893186.html American Red Cross declares national blood supply crisis. “Following our first-ever national blood crisis in 2022, we put additional safeguards in place to help prevent a crisis like that from happening again. But this summer, blood donations simply are not keeping pace with hospital demand, and inventories — especially type O blood — remain under significant strain. Every donation has the potential to help save lives, and we urgently need everyone who is eligible to make an appointment to give blood as soon as possible," said Chris Hrouda, president of Red Cross Biomedical Services.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/red-cross-blood-supply-crisis-donate-blood/73428343 Massive egg recall in US south and south-west due to salmonella outbreak A massive egg recall affecting nearly 1.6m dozeuyghs has been elevated to the US Food and Drug Administration’s highest-risk warning as officials investigate a salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 100 people. The FDA on 12 August reclassified the recall of nearly 1.6m dozen white and brown cage-free eggs over concerns they may be contaminated with salmonella.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/15/egg-recall-us-south-and-south-west-salmonella-outbreak 64-year-old man dies in police custody after medical emergency, NYPD says Police said they received
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Civilians in Ukraine and Russia are paying an ever-higher price in the war The CIT recorded 2,650 civilian deaths in Ukraine in 2025 (297 in occupied areas and 2,353 in the rest of the territory). On the Russian side, the deaths amounted to 275. Those figures are based primarily on official records from regional governors, together with reporting from independent media. CIT classifies the data into three categories: Ukraine, occupied Ukraine, and Russia, while excluding attacks on military facilities.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-13/civilians-in-ukraine-and-russia-are-paying-an-ever-higher-price-in-the-war.html https://archive.ph/Pqxjt Swedish union ends dispute with Tesla In a statement, the union said the reason for its decision was that “Tesla has bought out all of our striking members at the company. With no members remaining at Tesla, our industrial action can no longer have an effect. “This does not mean that the fundamental issue behind the conflict has changed. Our goal remains that collective agreements should apply throughout the Swedish labour market, and IF Metall remains ready to fight for collective agreements wherever and whenever employers oppose them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-union-ends-dispute-tesla Hungary uses sunken barges to raise Danube River to keep nuclear plant going Hungarian authorities are sinking the two barges to raise water levels so Paks, which provides the country with more than a third of its electricity, can continue to operate normally. The sinking began Saturday morning and Hungarian media are quoting the prime minister saying the water level at the plant has risen by 1 centimeter.
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Interview With A Politburo Member Of The TKP-ML Dealing Principally With The Kurdish National Question We at Redspark are pleased to share with our readers the following interview with a member of the Politburo of TKP-ML. The interview touches on other issues, but deals primarily with Kurdish National Question, not just in Turkey but also in Syria. This interview was first published on the website of the TKP-ML on August 10, 2026. We are republishing the interview in full as it first appeared on tkpml.com. Red Salute! -The Redspark Editorial Collective
https://redspark.nu/peoples-war/turkey/interview-with-a-politburo-member-of-the-tkp-ml-dealing-principally-with-the-kurdish-national-question/ Cuba after Six Months of the Oil Blockade: Crisis and the Road to Recovery For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path. The latest phase of this economic war has targeted the island’s most vulnerable artery: its energy supply. Six months after Washington intensified pressure on countries and companies supplying oil to Cuba, the policy has not produced democracy or improved the lives of ordinary Cubans. It has produced darker homes, immobilised buses, interrupted hospitals, and greater difficulty in moving food from farms to cities. The immediate task is to prevent a humanitarian disaster. The larger task is to replace coercion with sovereign cooperation and to help Cuba build an energy system that cannot again be strangled by a foreign power.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/14/cuba-after-six-months-of-the-oil-blockade-crisis-and-the-road-to-recovery/ Gaza starvation: Why Israel's supporters are misrepresenting Unicef study Israel has consistently denied that it has used starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. These denials date back to Israel’s submission to the International Court of Justice in response to South Africa’s genocide case at the Hague in January 2024. Its lawyers asserted that
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=Jane Street took $15 billion hit in July tied to Situational Awareness, AI selloff, sources say Jane Street took a $15 billion hit in July from its exposure to AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness and other tech stocks that were battered by the market selloff, according to two people familiar with the matter and a note seen by Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jane-street-took-15-billion-hit-july-tied-situational-awareness-sources-say-2026-08-14/ Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Mangione, 28, said he made a gun with the aid of a 3D printer, traveled to New York and used a ruse — posing as an investor at a multibillion-dollar firm — to contact the company for details on the event. “On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione told the Manhattan federal court, which he entered shackled at the feet but not handcuffed in his beige jail uniform.
https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-plea-unitedhealthcare-ceo-3b8a5bb41589c9f5f4775dba2beea66f Vance presses Justice Department to investigate hospitals over transgender care Vance sent the Justice Department a report issued Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services accusing hospitals of incorrectly billing insurers for transgender health care procedures — such as prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapy to minors — in order to make a profit. “Some pediatric gender clinics and children’s hospitals have apparently used misleading or even fraudulent diagnostic and billing codes to ensure that insurance companies will cover the procedures,”…
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BP to Explore Venezuelan Offshore Natural Gas Alongside Emirati, Qatari Partners The Venezuelan government has granted an offshore natural gas concession to a consortium of British multinational BP, the United Arab Emirates’ XRG, and Qatar’s UCC. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez held an agreement-signing ceremony and press conference on Thursday alongside executives of the three corporations on Wednesday. … Rodríguez emphasized Caracas’ decision to prioritize natural gas ventures to supply the domestic market and boost exports. However, state energy company PDVSA is not a stakeholder in the project.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/bp-to-explore-venezuelan-offshore-natural-gas-alongside-emirati-qatari-partners/ Dominican Republic’s expulsion of Cuban officials sparks geopolitical tension In recent months, several conservative Latin American countries, including Colombia and Ecuador, have cut relations or closed their embassies in Cuba while proclaiming their political alignment with Trump. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry reacted that the expulsion involved 10 officials — not nine as the Dominicans had stated — and expressed regret over the decision by Dominican President Luis Abinader.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-cuba-expulsion-diplomats-us-embargo-tensions-afc79dfb2c416f2a97909b240857ca9b Only half of primary school kids have ‘satisfactory knowledge’ of language and maths The organisation's report looks at educational trajectories and learning outcomes. It drills down into government data to analyse how many children complete primary school within the expected timeframe, without repeating a year or dropping out, and how many of them simultaneously achieve satisfactory or advanced levels in language and mathematics.
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Short remark on IHL Day On the occasion of IHL Day yesterday, the Party and the New People’s Army reaffirm its commitment to uphold the National Democratic Front of the Philippine’s “Declaration of Adherence to International Humanitarian Law” (August 15, 1991) in waging revolutionary armed struggle to fight for national liberation from US imperialism and end the oppressive and exploitative rule of the puppet ruling classes.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/short-remark-on-ihl-day/ (TrueAnon)Episode 559: Deadpool Gambling week rolls on as we talk about the future of prediction markets, pump.fun bounty calls, insider trading, and more.
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/unlocked-episode-166577259 July 27, 2023: Idiots, No Longer Useful by Boris Kagarlitsky “They can, but we can’t.” We had to repeat this for many months, when left-wing and liberal oppositionists were detained and sent to trial for the mere word “war” uttered in connection with military operations on the territory of Ukraine, while Igor Strelkov and his associates criticized words of the military leadership, complained about defeats at the front, and talked openly about the terrible state of affairs in military units. Of course, they got away with it because they did not question the very need for military action. At first, Putin was not called by name and was not directly scolded. The government was reproached only for not being severe enough. With regard to Ukraine, they strictly adhered to the opinion that a country with such a name should not exist. But everything has changed. On July 21 at 11:30 they came for Strelkov, FSB officers detaining the founder of the Angry Patriots Club. Earlier, charges were brought against retired colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, another well-known member of the Club. He is to be punished for discrediting the Russian army. Angry Patriots can justly be accused of aggressiveness and bloodthirstiness (and against the background of his comrades-in-arms, Strelkov is even one of the most moderate). Yet their main problem is not with their views per se, but in their monstrous political naivety and economic
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Third person dies at New Jersey immigration detention center A nurse responded when Chajón-Raxón experienced a medical emergency and “witnessed Chajón-Raxón experiencing seizure-like activity”, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Medical personnel were called, and he was transported to a hospital, the DHS said in a statement shared with the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/immigrant-dies-delaney-hall-new-jersey ACLU Says New Flock Camera Guardrails Nothing But a ‘Thinly Veiled PR Attempt’ Flock on Thursday unveiled new guardrails for its law enforcement customers, including a reduction in default license plate data retention from 30 days to seven, mandatory auditing tools designed to flag suspicious searches, and requirements that officers associate searches with case numbers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aclu-flock-guardrails ‘Unprecedented, dangerous territory’: US north-west reckons with a summer of historic wildfires More than 2.9m acres (1.1m hectares) have already burned across Washington and Oregon this year, as extreme conditions fuel fast-moving fires that have draped the region in toxic plumes for weeks on end. Oregon has already logged more burned acreage this year than any in recorded history. Washington, meanwhile, is in the midst of its most destructive fire season.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/us-wildfires-pacific-north-west ‘Outrageous’: Trump Officials Investigated Left-Wing Groups After Alex Pretti Killing in Minneapolis As The New York Times reported, days after Pretti was killed in the street as he tried to help a woman who had been violently pushed by the agents, the DHS office in St. Paul opened an investigation into groups including the climate-focused Sunrise Movement, major labor groups like the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Democratic Socialists of America, and a collective called Direct Action Minnesota
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Israel Detains Palestinian AFP Journalist Mohammed Awad in West Bank Raid Israeli occupation forces detained Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad during an early-morning raid on his home near Ramallah on Wednesday, as the number of Palestinian media workers held in Israeli custody continues to rise. Awad, 38, is a video journalist who has worked with several international media organizations, including AFP, covering developments throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-detains-palestinian-afp-journalist-mohammed-awad-in-west-bank-raid/ In Christian village of Taybeh, Israeli military order fails to stop settler violence Local residents documented fresh settler attacks on several families east of Taybeh on Tuesday 11 August, including the Naif al-Kaabneh family, who have been subjected to violent assaults in recent days, despite the decision to close off the area under the pretext of protecting Palestinians. Taybeh is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank, and its residents rely on agriculture, olive groves and olive oil production, among other sources of income.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-christians-taybeh-face-continuing-settler-attacks-despite-military-closure Popular Algerian Hirak activist arrested over TikTok live, 'glorifying terrorism' Mohammed Bakir Torki, also known as Soufiane, was remanded in custody after the Sidi M'hamed Court in the capital, Algiers, brought several criminal charges against him. The accusations brought against the activist, which also include disseminating false information via social media, are related to his participation in a TikTok live broadcast in June this year. Authorities accused Bakir Torki of glorifying and praising terrorism, and undermining public security and public order.
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Fidel Castro at 100: History Has Absolved Him!: Nikos Mottas Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism It is against this background that Fidel Castro’s stature comes fully into view. The Cuban Revolution was not the work of one man. Revolutions are made by masses, through organized struggle and under concrete historical conditions. But denying Fidel’s exceptional role would be as absurd as reducing the Revolution to his personality. He became one of the giants of the revolutionary movement of the twentieth century not because history granted him some mystical quality, but because his life became inseparable from a revolution that overthrew Batista, confronted the Cuban bourgeoisie and U.S. imperialism, defended socialist power through extraordinary trials and placed a small Caribbean island on the side of peoples fighting colonialism, apartheid and imperialist domination across the world. Nor does Fidel need to be transformed into a saint. Marxism has no use for saints. He made mistakes; the Revolution made mistakes. Policies were corrected, experiments failed and contradictions were sometimes underestimated. The decisive historical question is not whether errors occurred, but which class interests were being fought, which power was being defended and in which direction Cuban society was struggling to advance. That question remains decisive today.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/08/fidel-castro-at-100-history-has-absolved-him.html Defend the Cuban revolution! Defeat US imperialism! Fight for world socialism! Emboldened by the immediate success of its January 3 attack on Venezuela, US imperialism has launched an unprecedented campaign of economic asphyxiation and military bullying of Cuba. The 60 year old blockade has been strengthened since the beginning of the year with a near complete oil blockade which has decimated Cuba’s ability to produce energy with devastating effects on the daily lives of millions. A systematic criminal and very effective campaign of secondary sanctions and diplomatic pressure has targeted all aspects of Cuba’s economy (tourism, mining, the export of medical services, shipping, trade). This is a brutal and cruel medieval siege with the aim of achieving surrender by hunger. Economic measures have been supplemented by
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Thomson Reuters Slammed for Deal That Gives ICE Access to Private Profiles of Tens of Millions of Americans More than two dozen watchdog organizations are calling on Congress to investigate reports that the data broker Thomson Reuters is making its investigative database available to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which they warn will make Americans vulnerable to Fourth Amendment violations.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/thomson-reuters-ice Hospitals push for upfront payments as patient deductibles and out-of-pocket costs rise Medical providers are collecting larger shares of what patients might owe at a time when rising deductibles mean patients are owing more for care. The preservice charge could be all or part of a remaining deductible, for example, or a sizable percentage of what the visit or treatment might cost. Those deductibles go up when hospital prices, drug costs, and labor expenses increase, as insurers try to slow premium growth by shifting more costs to patients.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospitals-upfront-payments-rising-deductibles/ US Citizen Calls ICE ‘Unhinged’ After Agent Points Gun at Her Footage recorded by American citizen Carolina Molina, which went viral earlier in the week, showed a masked federal immigration agent pointing a handgun at her an office parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia, as they detained two men.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-ice-agent-pointing-gun-at-us-citizen-in-virginia-falls-church-12312508 https://archive.ph/ozWi8 US appeals court voids formula used to avert surprise medical bills The case concerned the No Surprises Act, a 2020 law requiring healthcare providers and insurers to negotiate reimbursement rates themselves rather than stick patients with huge bills for out-of-network treatments, especially in emergencies. … Tuesday's majority sided with the providers in
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Hunger strike against inhumane conditions, forced labor and torture in Ukrainian prisons On August 5, 162 Ukrainian prisoners, among them 92 political prisoners, engaged in a one-day hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions, torture and killings within the Ukrainian prison system. According to the website anti-imperialism.by, over 200 people from 15 other countries, including Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, Germany and Greece, joined the hunger strike. Some 50 left-wing activists and anti-fascists, as well as 20 relatives of political prisoners in Ukraine also joined the protest action.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/12/wbaq-a12.html Putin threat pushes Germany to give spies major new powers Under the proposed reform, spies working for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, could carry out acts of sabotage, conduct offensive cyber operations and pursue more aggressive espionage operations. Until now, those spies have been limited to information-gathering operations due to intentional restraints put in place after World War II to prevent a repeat of the abuses perpetrated by the Nazi spy apparatus.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-give-spies-bnd-new-powers-to-counter-russia-threat/ https://archive.ph/4eaIY Migrant workers liken zero-hour contracts to conditions during the Industrial Revolution MIGRANT hospitality workers have likened zero-hours contracts to working conditions during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. The United Voices of the World (UVW) union said that conditions under the contracts are “very similar” to the long working hours, fines and low wages that were rife in the 1700s.
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The Democratic Party Establishment Punches Back Things came to a head with the undeniable success of DSA-backed candidates in New York City’s June 23 primaries. It was a test of whether the country’s most prominent democratic-socialist mayor would continue to align with the Democratic Party’s center and right wing or use his political capital — and, more importantly, the popularity generated by his program and campaign — to challenge them. While Mamdani initially pledged to support candidates on the Working Families Party line, including Democrats who were not endorsed by DSA, at the 11th hour he switched course to advocate for three insurgent candidates who won their primaries by large margins, undermining the designs of his party’s leadership. Mamdani made the political calculation that if he supported DSA’s candidates, he would gain more favor from his base and from the DSA rank and file (after facing backlash for his coziness with the police and his endorsement of Kathy Hochul for governor). House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s response was telling in its passive-aggressive restraint. When asked whether Mamdani’s endorsements had made him enemies in Washington, Jeffries confirmed that the two had “strongly” disagreed over his picks and warned that the mayor “has got work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.” It was the sound of a party leader trying to manage an insurgency rather than one confidently setting terms for it.
https://www.leftvoice.org/democratic-establishment-punches-back/ Hoisted from the Inbox: China Wobbles or Worse in Store? Yves here. Some who are knowledgeable about China correspond with me. I sent around an article from Asia Times, China’s 25-year tax reach will cost it more than it collects. This measure seems so misguided (in terms of the 25 year part, not some collection of back taxes per se) as to seem desperate. From the top of the story: China is now chasing decades of unpaid tax on money its wealthiest citizens moved offshore, in some cases reaching back as far as 25 years. Call it what it actually is: a state deciding, after the fact, that wealth it once let leave the country is now fair game to reclaim. To be sure, taxing worldwide income isn’t radical policy. The Unite
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Pressley Demands Israel Release US Citizen Sama Safi, Abducted by IDF More Than Two Months Ago The Guardian reported in June that Safi, a psychology student at the West Bank’s Birzeit University, was arrested along with three other women around the same time. An Israeli military spokesperson told The Guardian that they were all arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/free-sama-safi-israel HCA workers push for higher pay and more staffing amid billions in profits: ‘I’m struggling’ The hospital system has over 300,000 employees in the US and the UK, with 22,000 US workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who are in contract negotiations with HCA. Workers are asking for a pathway to a $25 an hour minimum wage, improved wage scales and raises that match the increased cost of living, along with benefits including paid vacation, sick time and bolstered work protections.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/union-hca-healthcare-workers-protest Advocates Call for End of Deadly Tactic Used by For-Profit Health Insurers to Deny Treatment The policy brief, published Monday by the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), an anti-monopoly think tank, argues that the system is a massive drag on the US healthcare system, draining doctors of their time, fueling hiring shortages, and—most importantly—worsening treatable health problems for millions of Americans.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-care-veto Judge temporarily blocks implementation of NYC's new pied-à-terre tax The ruling pauses enforcement on the tax on second properties while a lawsuit brought by a group of homeowners moves forward. That lawsuit alleges that the city bungled the rollout by including many who live full-time in their homes on a list of 900,000 people who could be subject to the tax, as well as sending letters to 17,000 others.
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Fascist Ukrainian court sentences Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of war, to 15 years in prison On August 10, Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The verdict, handed down by a district court in the Nikolaev region, also orders the confiscation of his property and electronic devices and the destruction of the socialist books, leaflets and programmatic documents taken from him. … The verdict will be immediately appealed. Under Ukrainian law, the appeal must be filed within 30 days. We call on all supporters of democratic rights to back these legal actions and call for the annulment of the sentence.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/11/oqko-a11.html Almost three-quarters of England now in drought, UK government says Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought, the British government said on Monday, highlighting the worsening impact of prolonged dry weather on agriculture, public water supplies and wildlife. Most of the country, 71.3%, is now experiencing a flash drought caused by a combination of very low rainfall and higher temperatures. That has risen since late July, when almost half the country was declared to be in drought.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/almost-three-quarters-england-now-drought-uk-government-says-2026-08-10/ Cuban President Meets With Communist Leaders Visiting Havana On Monday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel received several representatives of communist parties from around the world who are visiting Havana this week to participate in activities marking the centennial of the birth of Commander Fidel Castro (1926-2016). Among the visitors are Jose Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain, and Walter Baier, the president of the European Left Party.
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Milburn is wrong about unemployment — and branding primary schoolkids failures won’t help MINISTERS should give short shrift to Alan Milburn’s damaging proposal to brand children failures from an early age. Milburn is entirely wrong in viewing youth joblessness as primarily down to either education or the mythical generosity of the social security system. It is an economic problem. Britain has the lowest level of investment of any G7 country, a bottom-rank position it has clung to almost every year for three decades. Economists have long identified its short-termist corporate culture, exacerbated by the encroachment of private equity investors on a growing number of sectors. Equity markets and institutional investors put pressure on firms to prioritise short-term returns on capital and maximum dividend payouts — often undermining the longer term viability of the business or service in question, and discouraging investment either in technology or training. Instead of making up for a lack of private-sector investment with greater public investment, Tory and Labour governments have consistently cut it, while grand claims to possess an “industrial strategy” usually turn out to be overblown — dependent on lavish bribery to underwrite private profits in return for minimal promises on investment or jobs, which are then often broken without serious consequences.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/milburn-wrong-about-unemployment-and-branding-primary-schoolkids-failures-wont-help Ceuta and the Ugly Face of Europe’s “Progressive” Nationalism Earlier this month, more than 50,000 Moroccan migrants swam three miles through the open ocean to Ceuta, a Spanish colonial enclave city on the Moroccan side of the Strait of Gibraltar. These migrants are largely young Moroccan men and boys who are unemployed or precarious workers in search of a future. Youth unemployment is around 37 percent, and the Moroccan government represses political dissent. The mass exodus shows that tens of thousands of Moroccan youth would quite literally rather risk their lives than remain in Morocco, where resources have been funneled towards the 2030 World Cup and multinational industry, and away from the wellbeing, health, and opportunities of its
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Student loan borrowers face steeper ‘marriage penalty’ under new repayment plan The U.S. Department of Education’s new Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, increases the “marriage penalty” for borrowers, said Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner and the president of Bone Fide Wealth in New York. A marriage penalty typically occurs when a married couple pays more in income taxes by filing jointly than they would if each person filed as single.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/student-loan-marriage-penalty-rap.html https://archive.ph/oCqdU July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country Last month’s average temperature was 3.3F (1.8C) higher than the 20th century average for the contiguous United States, which excludes Alaska and Hawaii, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/july-hottest-month-ever-recorded-heatwaves Congress' disappearing town halls August recess once meant lawmakers returning home to face constituents — sometimes friendly, sometimes furious. After a wave of explosive confrontations last year, many lawmakers have stopped them altogether. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) is among the dwindling number of lawmakers who still regularly subject themselves to the traditional, open town hall. "You've got to show up in the town square and answer the questions. I told people I'd do it when I ran, and I kept my promise," Flood told Axios.
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International Brigades Donate Medical Supplies to Havana’s Oncology Institute More than 240 brigadistas from social movements in Latin America, the United States, and Europe delivered medical supplies to the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Havana to support the care of cancer patients in a context of the tightening of the US blockade against Cuba.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/international-brigades-donate-medical-supplies-to-havanas-oncology-institute/ Mass trials without due process in El Salvador: ‘Judges are afraid. They’re convicting everyone’ Analysis of the documents shows that most defendants were arrested under remarkably similar circumstances: police officers or soldiers on patrol in areas with gang activity would spot one or more individuals with a “suspicious appearance,” who would then allegedly attempt to “flee.” After detaining them, officers checked police databases and identified them as gang members. Of the 1,226 cases reviewed, only two involved arrests were made under an arrest warrant or following a judicial search warrant
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-10/mass-trials-without-due-process-in-el-salvador-judges-are-afraid-theyre-convicting-everyone.html https://archive.ph/n7Bcg Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who reported the death toll, said at least 87 people were injured and around 1,600 buildings were damaged, including at least 61 that completely collapsed. He declared an emergency to expedite funding for the quake recovery while saying he would visit the disaster zone. “We aren’t going to leave people alone. They are in our hearts and we are going to tend to people with our full determination,” he said.
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On the New Agreement Between PKK and Turkey: Marxist-Leninist Communist Party The newly announced agreement between the colonial Turkish state and the Kurdish national democratic movement raises a central question: What has actually been won for the Kurdish people and the oppressed? The agreement contains no recognition of Kurdish national existence or collective democratic rights. Instead, it focuses almost entirely on the legal framework for the dissolution and disarmament of the PKK and the guerrilla movement. It contains no acknowledgment of the state’s historical policies of denial, repression, or violence. Instead, the agreement places the Kurdish struggle itself on trial rather than addressing the roots of the conflict using colonial state language. Kurdish national democratic leader Abdullah Öcalan is granted no official political status connected to the Kurdish national democratic struggle.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/35915/ An organisation of workers’ autonomy? – Historical texts and current considerations (3) In the first part of this series we could read about the conflictual relationship between the main national extra-parliamentary groups of the far-left in Italy in the 1970s, such as Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio, and the political organisms of workers autonomy. In the second part we documented translations of two political proposals by three of the main autonomous worker organisations: the Autonomous Assembly at Alfa Romeo and Pirelli and the struggle committee at Sit-Siemens, mainly located in Milan. In this part we provide a translation of an organisational proposal by the CAO (Autonomous Workers Committees) from Rome, circulated in 1978. We think the material of this series is still relevant for our quest for a new form of working class organisation today.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2026/07/31/an-organisation-of-workers-autonomy-historical-texts-and-current-considerations-3/ Paul Mattick: The Keynesian International Anticipating America's role in the wake of the first world war, President Wilson encouraged his fellow-citizens in 1916 by saying tha
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US courts clear way for deportations of South Sudan, Myanmar nationals Judges in Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois on Friday rejected last-ditch efforts by immigrant-rights advocates to maintain the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for the two countries after the US Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/8/us-courts-clear-way-for-deportations-of-south-sudan-myanmar-nationals https://archive.ph/j8BXB Trump loyalist Todd Blanche confirmed by Senate as US attorney general Blanche had already been leading the department in an acting capacity, and the vote came after his nomination had been in limbo for weeks. He faced pushback from Republican senators over the department’s deal to create a $1.8bn so-called “anti-weaponization fund” and to give the president, his sons and his businesses tax immunity.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/08/todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmed A pillar of environmental enforcement is targeted by Trump and Musk’s AI company Their argument, supported by the Trump administration, is that the Constitution reserves tremendous power for the president and federal agencies to decide how — or whether at all — to enforce federal law. They contend Congress should never have handed that power to others through so-called citizen suits that are part of environmental, campaign finance and certain other laws.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-xai-environment-citizen-lawsuits-a46d8e3f20d0500175fe2ee981998323 Kamala Harris aims to rally Southern voters Former Vice President Kamala Harris plans to spend the next few months rallying Southern voters after the Supreme Court "basically undid the Voting Rights Act," she said wh
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Islamic resistance in Iraq delays response to US-Saudi strikes following restraint call The IRI announced that in response to Hadi al-Ameri’s call and “in alignment with the honorable positions of some honorable political leaders, it has been decided to postpone the response that was scheduled for today, the twenty-third of the blessed month of Safar (Auguest 7).” The Umberella group affirmed “that the pure blood of the martyrs has not been and will never be a commodity in the market of political calculations,” calling upon politicians “whom the chair [power] has blinded from protecting blood and violated sovereignty to review themselves and return to their senses.”
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1078720 Nigerian security forces free more than 300 hostages in ‘largest single-day recovery’ Among those who regained freedom were 163 people abducted in February during a deadly raid on the village of Woro in Kwara state, and 145 others seized primarily from the neighbouring Niger state. Both states are flanked to the west by Benin, where militant attacks have been surging in recent times. Officials confirmed the survivors are receiving medical evaluations at an army installation before being reunited with their families.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/06/nigerian-security-forces-free-hostages-abducted-by-militants Venezuelan government and opposition open US-backed talks The meeting was held behind closed doors at the La Carlota Convention Center, in the Sucre municipality, with no press access. In an identical statement issued by both sides, the teams announced they would remain in permanent session until Wednesday, August 12, when they will decide whether the plenary continues.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/07/venezuelan-government-and-opposition-open-us-backed-talks CIA launches Cuba task force amid new sanctions and UN warnings of a “silent Gaza” They came one day after the
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Repression in Zelensky’s Ukraine: Political prisoners announce August 5 hunger strike A one-day international solidarity hunger strike will be held on 5 August 2026 in support of political prisoners in Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukraine. The initiative was launched by the Association for the Defence of Political Prisoners and Human Rights, founded by Ukrainian communists Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, together with 15 prisoners at Vinnytsia Correctional Colony No. 86.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/08/repression-in-zelenskys-ukraine-political-prisoners-announce-august-5-hunger-strike.html 2 Years After Kursk Incursion, Russia Raises Civilian Death Toll to More Than 600 At least 640 Russian civilians were killed and 561 others were wounded during Ukraine’s occupation of the southwestern Kursk region, the Investigative Committee said Thursday on the second anniversary of Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion. The updated figure from Russia’s top investigative body marks an increase from previous estimates that varied from around 350 to more than 500 civilian deaths during the months-long occupation.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/06/2-years-after-kursk-incursion-russia-raises-civilian-death-toll-to-more-than-600-a93426 https://archive.ph/GqwFO Racist thugs storm homes of refugees Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the full force of the law,” with two more people arrested on Thursday on a third consecutive night of unrest in the Norfolk market town. People have attempted to storm homes linked to asylum-seekers following proposals to convert a former military base just over the border in Suffolk, RAF Barnham, into asylum-seeker accommodation for up to 3,750 people.
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For 60 Years, The Battle of Algiers Has Inspired Resistance Even before Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 1966, the film had generated a lot of buzz. The jury presided over by Italian writer Giorgio Bassani gave the film the Golden Lion, the main award of the festival, “for the courage with which it tackled such a difficult and highly controversial historical and political issue, or for the vigor with which it was able to master such a subject.” Beyond the praise, the film was also met with various polemics, which continued well after its release. The French government’s delegation to Venice refused to attend both the screening and the award ceremony at the end of the festival because, in the words of its head representative (civil servant and author Philippe Erlanger), “we interpret the inclusion of the film in the festival as a sign of hostility toward France.” French film critics — who as always flooded the Italian city for the festival, as they represented the largest group of foreign journalists — did see the film but largely did not speak of it favorably: to mention just one, in Le Monde Yvonne Baby wrote how “Gillo Pontecorvo made the mistake of emphasizing — with irritating intensity (to which the music contributes greatly) — the heroism of the Algerian fighters, and of constantly filming, in close-ups and in a tragic twilight, tense, pained faces whose expressions. . . . evoke no emotion whatsoever.” France was not ready to talk about the Algerian war just four years after the humiliating withdrawal from the North African country. But what is Pontecorvo’s film about, and why does it still make sense to talk about it sixty years later?
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/algeria-battle-algiers-pontecorvo-film Kshama Sawant’s Third-Place Finish Shows the Space for a Party of Our Own In Washington’s 9th Congressional district, independent socialist candidate Kshama Sawant took over one in seven votes in Tuesday’s primary elections. At over 15 percent of the vote (accounting for 16,408 ballots, with more still being counted), this marked a third-place finish, coming behind Rep. Adam Smith, the Democratic candidate who won 51 percent of the vote, and Doug Basler, a Republican who carried 24 percent of the vote. In
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US Senate passes Russia sanctions bill championed by Lindsey Graham The bill would impose new sanctions and visa bans on Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, and top military commanders, as well as put tariffs of up to 500% on the country’s exports. It would also allow Donald Trump to impose levies of up to 100% on goods from countries that are the top five importers of Russian oil and gas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/07/russia-sanctions-senate-passed-petroleum FCC scraps limit on local TV ownership in win for media conglomerates In a historic vote on Thursday morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines to overturn a key check against the consolidation of the television industry, throwing out a rule that prevented any one company from owning stations that collectively reach more than 39% of all US TV households.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/06/fcc-overturns-limit-local-tv-ownership ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says After years of delays, ICE said its field officers nationwide will have body-worn cameras by the end of September. The rollout comes after recent fatal shootings by officers enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown have intensified pressure for accountability that the cameras could provide.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-body-cameras-officers-shootings-dab1b294c8dc412d9ef8557ccbebfd57 Airline workers reportedly decline to help US agents as Trump migrant crackdown accelerates At one point, in Dallas, a federal agent went so far as to try to board a plane in search of a target. But the Southwest Airlines gate agent reportedly refused to allow the officer to do so without a warrant signed by a judge, and airline employees blocked ICE from seeing a computer screen while passengers were boarding.
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UK: Nearly one in five Prevent referrals had autism, new Home Office figures reveal The figures also showed: a 20 percent rise in referrals for individuals related to far-right extremism. Asian people continue to be overrepresented in the Prevent programme, making up 18 percent of referrals where ethnicity was recorded - double their proportion of the wider population in England and Wales. …. Smith argued that the programme's referral process relies too heavily on subjective judgement with public sector workers legally obliged to refer anyone to Prevent if they are suspected of terrorism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nearly-one-five-prevent-referrals-had-autism-recorded-new-home-office-figures-reveal BBC Axed Report on British Army Killing Unarmed Child in Derry The UK government successfully lobbied the BBC to axe a report revealing the British Army killed an unarmed child in Derry during the Troubles in 1972, newly released documents reveal. A week after 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty was shot dead, the Ministry of Defence falsely claimed he had been killed from a distance of 25 metres by a soldier who believed the child was armed.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/05/bbc-axed-report-on-british-army-killing-unarmed-child-in-derry/ Germany: Far-right AfD extends its lead in nationwide polls For the time being, there is still widespread agreement among all democratic parties in Germany: Cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) remains out of the question. However, whether this will remain the case is becoming increasingly uncertain. The established parties have so far been unable to halt the AfD's surge in the polls over recent months.
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Tudeh Party of Iran, "Endless War" and the Perilous Future Facing Iran and the Middle East Classic wars often begin when they have clearly stated political goals, in addition to economic benefits for the military-industrial complex and usually end when one side achieves all or a significant part of those goals or considers continuing the war futile and unprofitable.However, what is unfolding today between Iran, the US, and Israel bears little resemblance to such classical wars. Rather than a conventional military confrontation, it is increasingly an example of "unlimited" and multilateral warfare that blurs the boundaries between the battlefield, the economy, politics, and national security. Such a wide-ranging conflict is no longer simply a war of missiles and aircraft. Economic sanctions, intelligence operations, cyberattacks, psychological warfare, targeted assassinations, the wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure, and diplomatic pressure have all become integrated instruments of a single conflict. Unlike the wars of previous centuries, moreover, the objective of contemporary warfare is not necessarily the conquest of territory and resources, but rather the gradual erosion of a state's capacity to govern and administer the country. To a considerable extent, what we are witnessing in Iran today conforms to precisely this pattern.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-Endless-War-and-the-Perilous-Future-Facing-Iran-and-the-Middle-East/ The End of “Learn to Code” Economics The “Learn to Code” movement in the early 2010s encouraged people to learn computer programming in an economy increasingly reliant on technology. Many students chose computer science majors and workers enrolled in coding bootcamps, all because they were sold on the idea that it provided a stable future. This was fueled by the rapid growth of technology companies and their demand for software engineers. For two decades, Learn to Code reflected the needs of capital. But when in crisis, capital seeks new avenues for profit. What was once touted as one of the best careers to pursue, now has some of the highest unemployment rates while tech companies are making record-breaking profits. “Learn to Code” reminds us that labor
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Puerto Rico to Implement 48-Hour Water Cuts in Seven Municipalities Starting Friday Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González announced a 48-hour rotating water service interruption plan on Tuesday for clients served by the Carraízo reservoir and the Sergio Cuevas Filter Plant, affecting sectors in seven municipalities starting at 6:00 a.m. Friday.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/puerto-rico-to-implement-48-hour-water-cuts-in-seven-municipalities-starting-friday/ Arrest exposes opaque agreement between Puerto Rico and ICE to share migrants’ information García and lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Legal Assistance Clinic of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, who together have represented Rodríguez, say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained her using information from the driver’s license that was shared last year with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by local authorities.
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-08-05/arrest-exposes-opaque-agreement-between-puerto-rico-and-ice-to-share-migrants-information.html https://archive.ph/Wkmp3 Trump signs orders to limit US birthright citizenship, despite Supreme Court ruling Limiting birthright citizenship has been one of the top priorities in the Republican president's crackdown on immigration, with the White House taking particular aim at what it calls "birth tourism," in which pregnant foreigners travel to the U.S. to give birth. After his June 30 setback in the Supreme Court, Trump called on Congress to act, but on Thursday he opted for executive orders, which set policy but are not legally binding. The court said Trump's earlier effort to restrict birthright citizenship was unconstitutional.
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Solidere, the company that rebuilt Beirut, seeks another generation The cabinet is expected to consider on Friday a request by the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District, better known as Solidere, to amend its mandate to 75 years from its final incorporation in the 90s, effectively extending its lifespan until 2069. The proposal has reignited one of Lebanon's oldest post-war disputes, pitting promises of investment and unfinished reconstruction against accusations that the company had outlived its original purpose while continuing to benefit from exceptional privileges.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-debates-solideres-future-beirut-considers-extension UNICEF says one child killed per day in Gaza since ‘ceasefire’ At least 300 children have been killed in Gaza in the roughly 300 days since a so-called “ceasefire” was announced on October 10, 2025 – an average of one child a day, the United Nations children’s agency says. Hundreds more have been wounded, many severely, UNICEF said in a statement on Thursday as it pressed parties to a proposed US-led peace plan to translate pledges into action.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/6/unicef-says-one-child-killed-per-day-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-2 https://archive.ph/vzp8z White Nile traders strike over rising fees as Port Sudan faces water and power crisis The strike followed a call by the city’s Chamber of Commerce to close the market through Wednesday. Traders said the new fees were placing an unsustainable financial burden on businesses and would ultimately push up the prices of goods and services. Trader Awad El Tom told Radio Dabanga that the strike achieved “100 per cent” participation, with traders demanding that the locality review the new charges.
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Reporting from Gaza with Palestinian Poet Ahmed Sarsour “It’s not just about what’s happening in Palestine, it’s happening everywhere. The same forces that are controlling the world, the capitalist and imperialist forces, they are the ones who started the war in Sudan, and they are the ones waging wars in communities in every country in the world, like in Congo and Turtle Island, and Cuba and Venezuela,” Ahmed Sarsour tells me. It’s the afternoon of Friday, June 26, and Sarsour is struggling to stay on the call amid interruptions in electricity. The 33-year-old Palestinian poet is speaking to Unicorn Riot from his birthplace, his grandparents’ home in the center of Gaza in the city of Deir Al-Balah. Shaken but still standing after three separate bombings, the house sits adjacent to rubble from their neighbors’ former home. The local mosque has also been destroyed.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/reporting-from-gaza-with-palestinian-poet-ahmed-sarsour/ Sanae Takaichi Cannot Resolve Japan’s Economic Crisis Japan has been in a prolonged economic crisis, with the yen reaching a 40-year low in value at the start of July. Takaichi was elected in part due to her bold economic promises. While there has been some debate, Takaichi is generally seen as a Keynesian politician who aims to stimulate the Japanese economy through major investments in key industries tied to advanced technology and the defense industry, favoring multi-year budgeting over single-year budgets. She has further promised to relieve consumer costs by lowering Japan’s 8 percent tax on food sales to just 1 percent. Elected largely due to her economic promises, Takaichi has been unable to pass much of this agenda, even with her party’s supermajority. Instead, she has had to rely on intervention from the United States, which stepped in late last week to prop up the yen. Whether or not this intervention succeeds in stabilizing Japan’s economy, it signals the Japanese government’s own inability to address the issue most impacting Japanese workers. It also further reinforces Japan’s subordination to the United States at a time when the United States is increasingly weak and unable, or unwilling, to act as a reliable ally, even to its most sycophantic partners.
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Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in defining race for Democrats Michigan voters also delivered victories for other progressive candidates, nominating climate activist William Lawrence and Donavan McKinney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, both of whom are backed by Bernie Sanders in their bids for seats in the House of Representatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/michigan-senate-primary-results-abdul-el-sayed US imperialism wargames the military draft On July 22, the U.S. Selective Service System issued a request for quotations seeking a contractor to develop a computer simulation of a military draft. The project is another indication that the American ruling class is making concrete preparations to mobilize hundreds of thousands or potentially millions of young people for future wars.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/04/vcvx-a04.html Immigrant-led business group votes to sue NYC over Mamdani’s taxpayer-funded grocery stores, alleging unfair competition As the far-left mayor announced new details of his plan this week — including a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread – the Multicultural Business Coalition’s board voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the pricey initiative, the group’s chairman Frank Garcia told The Post. “The mayor doesn’t seem to want to sit down with us,” Garcia said, adding that Mamdani “won’t be able to bully these lawyers we are going to bring in.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/28/business/immigrant-led-business-group-votes-to-sue-nyc-over-mamdanis-taxpayer-funded-grocery-stores/ https://archive.ph/IGdNB Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid ‘A Pretty Big Win’ The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a liberal think tank, has estimated that more
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Turkey unveils draft law to re-integrate PKK militants, achieve peace The bill, which is expected to pass the assembly later this week, aims to end a decades-old conflict in part by facilitating the return to Turkey of potentially thousands of former PKK militants based in northern Iraq. Turkey's intelligence agency MIT would verify the group's disarmament and a committee—including the vice president, some ministers and the head of MIT—would oversee the militants' surrender and disarmament under the bill.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-unveils-draft-law-re-integrate-pkk-militants Saudi Aramco reports bumper profits as it bypasses Strait of Hormuz Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar have all had to cancel or massively curb energy shipments. However, Saudi Arabia has been able to export around two-thirds of its pre-war oil capacity because of the East-West Pipeline, which connects the kingdom’s eastern oil fields to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-aramco-reports-bumper-profits-citing-use-pipeline-bypass-strait-hormuz Puntland forces seize government-held camp in Somalia’s Galkayo Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni told a news conference on Wednesday in the regional capital Garowe that the assault was “a planned security operation” to send a “clear message to anyone working against the Puntland government”. “The operation targeted a camp where the federal government has recently been transporting weapons, military equipment and troops in an attempt to undermine Puntland’s security and stability,” he claimed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/5/puntland-forces-seize-government-held-camp-in-somalias-galkayo https://archive.ph/l8eQk Ghana parliament backs tough cocoa farm protections, with up to 20 years in prison The legislation would give all cocoa
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Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’ A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic smelter has called a $150m (£111m) out-of-court settlement to more than 1,000 people who were allegedly poisoned by the plant as children “a historic milestone”. Cardinal Pedro Barreto, 82, was in Rome meeting Pope Leo XIV and other cardinals in June when he received news that the firm that ran the smelter, the Doe Run Company, a subsidiary of Renco Group, would pay $150m to 1,373 Peruvians who have suffered health impacts since childhood.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/05/peruvian-cardinal-historic-milestone-150m-lead-poisoning-settlement-1300-children Colombia’s left presents evidence suggesting De la Espriella won through fraud Legal expert William Villanueva said that original tally sheets were scanned and subsequently reprocessed, removing the metadata that would allow them to determine whether the E14’s were uploaded or introduced digitally. “We found documents marked ‘confidential’… and others that said ‘not digitized’ on a blank page, which—and this is important—were later republished with different information,” said one of the computer scientists.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-left-presents-evidence-suggesting-de-la-espriella-won-through-fraud/ Chile Congress approves sweeping Kast reform to spur growth, rollout to face delays The reform — which amends 36 laws and 15 decrees — includes a gradual cut in the corporate tax rate to 23% by 2029 from 27% currently. Critics say there is no guarantee the measure will deliver the investment boost the government expects. The package also spans a wide range of other issues, from support for areas hit by wildfires to the relocation of aquaculture concessions.
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Centrist Democrats Keep Making Awful Health Reform Proposals As the start of the 2028 Democratic presidential primary nears, various policy institutions will offer up health care proposals for candidates to adopt. One such organization, the Searchlight Institute, jumped the gun a few months ago when it released Making Health Care More Available, a package of reforms headlined by a proposal to make primary care free for everyone. Overall, I find the Searchlight Institute’s proposal to be generally overstated in its significance and quite strange and cruel in its particulars.
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/health-care-searchlight-institute-aca Capitalism Fans the Flames of the Climate Crisis More than 900 wildfires have been raging across Canada, primarily in Alberta, British Columbia, Northwestern Ontario, and Saskatchewan. In Northwestern Ontario, where nearly 200 fires have been burning, community members have reported thick air, the constant smell of a campfire, and ash falling from the sky. Last Monday, July 13, a freight train was engulfed in flames, and workers had to request an emergency rescue. Smoke from the wildfires has poured over the Canadian border, with dense clouds hanging over cities in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. There have also been more than a dozen fires in the northern state of Minnesota due to extreme heat, dry conditions, and strong winds.
https://www.leftvoice.org/capitalism-fans-the-flames-of-the-climate-crisis/ How Europe Betrayed Leftwing Spain Over Ceuta I’ll go to my grave believing that, before Thursday last week, few outside the Sporcle elite could point to the North-African Spanish exclave of Ceuta on a map. That lack of knowledge was all to the good of the European right. Relying on a little public ignorance, they spun a short-lived and potentially orchestrated civilian incursion into yet another code-red threat to civilisation as we know it. But don’t get distracted by those dangerous games. It’s the deranged response to the event by governments across Europe that shows how powerful the right has become across the continent. Over the weekend, Reform UK’s home affairs
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Democratic US states sue to challenge Trump's latest tariffs The states' lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York follows previous challenges by small U.S. businesses, which sued to block the tariffs on the day they went into effect last month. States and small businesses have successfully challenged previous global tariffs imposed by Trump in his second term, but the president has continued to pursue new tariffs despite a series of legal setbacks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/group-25-us-states-challenge-trumps-latest-tariffs-2026-08-03/ Trump administration asks colleges to commit to education overhaul The agency’s letter asks these leaders to address grade inflation, improve transparency about the costs of attending their schools and curb foreign donations. It also asks them to hire faculty of “all relevant perspectives,” with the Trump administration previously arguing schools are too left leaning and suppress conservative voices.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/03/trump-admin-asks-colleges-to-sign-on-to-their-priorities-01022271 https://archive.ph/ZpqGj Federal judge blocks New York’s ban on ICE agents wearing masks D’Agostino’s 51-page preliminary ruling let stand a new state prohibition on 287(g) cooperation agreements between local police departments and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The restrictions are shaping up to be a political flashpoint between Democratic state officials and the Trump administration, which challenged both provisions.
https://gothamist.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-new-yorks-ban-on-ice-agents-wearing-masks https://archive.ph/MYVEo Immigrant being held at Delaney Hall dies, marking 22nd death in ICE custody Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 8/3/26 News Anon 3.0 04-08-26 02:29:39 No. 2883781 [Reply]
Italian unions reach world’s first ever national deal with Amazon The Filt CGIL, Fit CISL and Uiltrasporti unions said 57 sites in Italy are now covered in the deal struck with Amazon Italia Transport and Amazon Italia Logistica. On video surveillance, the unions say it has been agreed that images cannot be used for disciplinary purposes and workers have won the right to take parental leave in increments as small as a single hour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/italian-unions-reach-worlds-first-ever-national-deal-amazon ‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land Located in north-eastern Honduras, the Bajo Aguán valley is a fertile region that has been the country’s hub for palm oil production – the ubiquitous ingredient used in everything from shampoo to instant noodles. It has also been the site of a bitter 30-year conflict over land, involving small-scale farmers, or campesinos, large palm oil corporations backed by the government, and drug-trafficking groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/03/danger-no-longer-only-comes-from-the-hitmen-but-from-the-state-the-honduran-farmers-labelled-terrorists-for-protecting-their-land Hungary faces energy crunch as drought shuts down Paks nuclear plant, PM says “Due to the further drop in the Danube’s water level,” Magyar wrote Saturday, “tomorrow it will be completely shut down for the first time in 44 years." The Soviet-built Paks facility remains the backbone of the country’s power system. The loss of output has triggered national energy-saving measures and offers of support from regional neighbors. A prolonged outage would cripple Hungary’s electricity supply at a time when temperatures are forecast to rise above 40 degrees Celsius in Budapest next week amid an ongoing heatwave and drought across Europe.
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Spanish communists: The Ceuta migrant crisis is not an "invasion" but the product of capitalist rivalries "Between Thursday and Friday, around 50,000 people crossed the border by land and sea from Morocco into Ceuta, thousands of them minors. More than 50 deaths have been reported so far, making this one of the worst humanitarian crises ever witnessed at Spain's borders. By Friday, the overwhelming majority had returned to Morocco. These events can be understood as a means of pressure exerted by the Moroccan regime in the context of Spain-Morocco relations, coinciding with Morocco's increasingly close ties with the U.S.-Israel axis and a new phase of rapprochement between Spain and Algeria. Meanwhile, Spain's coalition government has blamed the situation exclusively on human trafficking networks, deliberately avoiding any connection between what has occurred and the diplomatic, political, commercial and military relations shaping the region. In response to the events in Ceuta, which the most reactionary sectors have gone so far as to describe as an "invasion," we denounce the fact that such situations are made possible by the conditions endured by broad sections of the Moroccan people, whose hardship can easily be manipulated and exploited in the disputes between capitalist governments and states.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/08/spanish-communists-ceuta-migrant-crisis-is-not-an-invasion-but-product-of-capitalist-rivalries_01726532161.html The Liberal Capture of Anarchism - The Polar Blast (2025) For the past few years, a peculiar current has swept through parts of the anarchist milieu, particularly those corners closest to academia, the NGO apparatus, and the broad “social justice” ecosystems of the liberal left. It goes something like this: “we don’t live in revolutionary times”. The line is always delivered with a kind of weary resignation, as if the speaker has grown too sophisticated, too worldly, too traumatised or too professional to still believe in any of the old principles. We are told that anarchists cannot reject electoralism, because that would be “dogmatic” or “purist.” We cannot maintain a principled anti-militarism in the face of imperial alignments and geopolitical
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Puerto Rico authorizes $2 billion coastal luxury development that activists oppose Environmentalists decried the approval, which Puerto Rico’s Adjunct Board of the Permit Management Office issued late Thursday. The approval was shared with The Associated Press on Friday. The Defend Cabo Rojo Coalition, which opposes the project, said the people of Cabo Rojo and experts should have had the opportunity to be heard. “Citizen participation is not a favor granted by an agency; it is a fundamental principle of due process and an indispensable guarantee when our natural resources, water, communities, and the future of the municipality are at stake,” it said in a statement to the AP.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-esencia-cabo-rojo-developers-44d13fdafa22d9ec394ff222426db331 Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions A heatwave scorching the western US region has elevated the risk of hazardous fire conditions particularly in parts of Oregon and Washington, where low humidity and powerful winds have put officials on alert for wildfire spread.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/heatwave-us-west-hazardous-fire-conditions Columbia University student workers’ union withdraws Israel divestment demand This withdrawal signifies a major shift in the union’s politics and orientation, as it has devoted itself to Columbia’s pro-Palestinian student movement since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Over 73,000 people have been killed since Israel began its assault on the enclave after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel in October 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-student-workers-union-withdraws-israel-divestment-demand Farmington Public Schools board trustee under fire over controversial comments Board Secretary Angie Smith made remarks last Friday at a campaign event for Congresswoman Haley
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Brazil: Solidary Campaign for Venezuelan People Affected by the Recent Earthquake The Solidarity Group with the Venezuelan People launched a fundraising campaign organized in Dois Vizinhos, Paraná. They are mobilizing to gather donations for Venezuelan people affected by the recent earthquake. Starting in July, volunteers are going door to door collecting supplies, such as non-perishable food, clothing, medicines, hygiene products, and other basic essentials. The campaign is rooted in a broader support effort: organizers say the group was formed to help Venezuelan families who came to the municipality to work, and who later faced difficulties, especially around housing and the costs of everyday life. With limited assistance after the initial period of employment, families often end up sharing small spaces and relying heavily on people’s solidarity.
https://redherald.org/2026/07/29/brazil-solidary-campaign-for-venezuelan-people-affected-by-the-recent-earthquake/ China’s Upsurging Strike Trend China is still the world’s worker’s strike capital. This fact is not always visible or perceived as such. The government of Xi Jinping, much to the linking of the capitalists, closes the siege against worker’s strikes with severity. Nevertheless, behind a facade of a unified, high-tech global powerhouse, this nation grapples with deep-rooted social unrest. Authorities frequently try to sweep these recurring conflicts under the rug, but undeniable reality makes them impossible to hide. The class struggle in China over recent decades has developed in the context of the country’s astonishing cycles of economic growth. In the first decade of the 2000s, rural struggles emerged prominently amid significant labor migration to export-oriented cities. Small farmers and rural workers clashed with local governments over the expropriation of their land, the advance of real estate development, and the rise of U.S.-style agribusiness. In the cities, from 2004 to 2008, strike movements blended the distinct characteristics of the Rust Belt in the North (where the former large-scale danwei system saw workers fighting layoffs and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises) and the Solar Belt in the South (where migrant rural workers demanded an en
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Secretive US court meant to deport alleged terrorists hears first case The hearing, before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, was open to the public and centered on Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident accused of supporting Islamic State and helping conceal a failed Election Day 2024 mass shooting plot. Prosecutors say much of the evidence against the Texas woman cannot be publicly disclosed.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/first-case-secretive-us-court-meant-deport-alleged-terrorists-2026-07-30/ US to make visa bond requirements permanent, affecting mostly African countries The program requires holders of passports from the affected countries to pay the bond to be interviewed for business and tourist visas — known as B1 and B2 visas — to travel to the United States. The bond is refunded if the visa application is denied or, if granted, if the person adheres to the visa terms. The Trump administration rolled out the program last August to crack down on visa overstays and as part of its broader efforts to curtail illegal migration. The government estimates that arresting and deporting visitors who have overstayed their visa costs about $18,000 per person.
https://apnews.com/article/visa-bonds-permanent-us-state-department-travelers-ca7e5a540309d7cafad47ed1520b9c68 Children face higher threat of US deportation as legal support deal expires The expiring contract paid about 100 legal groups across the country to provide legal services to about 24,000 unaccompanied minors. The contract allowed the groups to enter government-funded shelters as part of their representation. It was unclear what would happen after the contract expires, or if they would still be allowed to access their young clients.
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Bolivia issues arrest order against Morales over May and June road blockades The document, signed by prosecutor Brayan Melgar Ledezma of the specialized corruption prosecution unit, names Morales and other unidentified individuals in connection with six alleged offenses: armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the state, terrorism, endangering the safety of transportation, criminal association, public incitement to commit crimes, and endangering the safety of public services. The investigation stems from a complaint filed by the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, later joined by the Interior Ministry.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/07/30/bolivia-issues-arrest-order-against-morales-over-may-and-june-road-blockades Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes On June 15, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa was received at the Pentagon by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who thanked him for being a founding member of Donald Trump's “Shield of the Americas” coalition. “You have been a model partner with us,” Hegseth told him. In the week before that meeting, two women behind probes into the criminal activities of both governments and the Noboas were killed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/29/dwub-j29.html Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides. Six former child soldiers who were abducted and forced to fight with the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Two said they were trained by Colombians.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-child-soldiers-colombia-mercenaries-uae-rsf-9730de7a24a28895b2c2c500e7c1fd6b Detained Ugandan opposition leader Besigye in intensive care, wife says Post too long. Click here to view the full text. OP/ED News Anon 3.0 31-07-26 04:56:19 No. 2881296
The Right vs. the Right: Conservative “Liberals” in the Age of Trump Before the last presidential election, Adolph Reed Jr. argued that “electoral politics has captured too much of the political imagination of the American left—or, at least, of those occupying the cultural space that a left would if there were one in this country.” Reed lamented the culturally dominant “sensibility that approaches politics as largely performative, a theater for the expression of righteousness, or bearing witness for justice and against injustice.” As many radicals long predicted, this approach to politics has handed the whole of the national political conversation to the right, and this development will plague American society long after Trump is a memory. We’ve reached a point where Bill Kristol can be a featured speaker at a “liberal” conference. It’s hard, in this context, to know which way is up, yet we can see clearly that all ways now point rightward. Kristol is far from alone; this cottage industry includes a who’s who of bloody-handed, Bush-era conservatives who now pretend to care about the rule of law, when their whole careers were spent writing thin apologies for the many constitutional violations of the post-9/11 years. We would not be in this moment with MAGA lawlessness and authoritarianism were it not for the people behind The Bulwark, the Lincoln Project, and the various other groups and outlets that have emerged on the right since Trump.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/30/the-right-vs-the-right-conservative-liberals-in-the-age-of-trump/ Power beneath the surface: Mining, politics and the Marcos dev’t agenda For Indigenous peoples in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, there is no justice in Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s ‘just’ energy transition. Growing up in the fertile rice fields of the province, Bugkalot-Ilongot resident Zesirie Enggo chose to till the same land that had sustained generations of their community. On sunny days before, she recalled, a single hectare of their rice field could yield up to 100 sacks of palay. Yet, as several mining corporations — FCF Minerals Corporation, Oceana Gold Philippines Inc. and now North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation (NLMRC) — take interest in the richness of their mountains and soil, their liv
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U.S. investigating whether Iran was behind cyberattack on Minnesota water systems Malicious cyber activity affected technology at more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota this week, forcing some utilities to switch to manual operations as state and federal authorities dig into who is behind the attack, CBS News has learned.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-investigating-iran-cyberattack-minnesota-water-systems/ US cites ‘unauthorized travel’ to end DACA status for a mother of 3 deported to Mexico A Texas mother deported to Mexico despite having legal permission to stay in the U.S. after arriving as a child has filed a lawsuit against the federal government after it notified her it would be terminating her permission because of “unauthorized travel” stemming from her deportation.
https://apnews.com/article/daca-immigration-texas-uscis-09071c1707e6e1d385ca503c9c75bc6f Data Centers Divide Democrats in Michigan Primary This growing opposition has forced Michigan’s elected officials to reconsider the wisdom of the state’s 2024 decision to hand out tax breaks to data center constructors. Abdul El-Sayed, an epidemiologist and former Wayne County public health official running in the August 4 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, told Barn Raiser that the corporations building data centers aren’t straightforward about their development plans.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/data-centers-michigan-democrats-primary-el-sayed-stevens Seattle police chief resigns under pressure from mayor over response to festival shooting Mayor Katie Wilson’s announcement followed hours of speculation about whether Police Chief Shon Barnes would step down, as some of his supporters said he had rebuffed Wilson’s request to resign. Wilson said she was appointing Deputy Chief Andre Sayles, a law enforcement veteran with more than two decades of experience, as interim chief. Barnes told The Seattle Times earlier Thur
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Aoun’s Ankara visit seeks clarity in Lebanon-Turkey relationship Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is set to visit Ankara on Thursday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a one-day trip aimed at clarifying an established but increasingly ambiguous relationship between the two countries. Aoun will travel with a small delegation of presidential advisers, without any ministers, and no bilateral treaties are expected to be signed during the visit.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aouns-ankara-visit-seeks-clarity-lebanon-turkey-relationship Israel releases two Syrian men after more than a year in detention The two men were identified by the Syrian news outlet Enab Baladi as Hossam Al-Safadi, from the town of Beit Jin in western Rif Dimashq province, and Marwan Al-Karyan, from Suwaysah in Quneitra province. Their release follows several others in recent days. According to Enab Baladi, five Syrian detainees have been freed over the past week, with one released on Tuesday and two more on 23 July.
https://www.newarab.com/news/two-syrians-freed-after-more-year-israeli-detention Hamas reaches Gaza disarmament agreement with Board of Peace Al Jazeera has received a copy of Thursday’s agreement, which stipulates that the precise disarmament roadmap must be prepared within 14 days, with possible extensions subject to the approval of an international verification body, and the agreement of all parties. “These negotiations were difficult and hard, and we tried to reach the best possible formula that was achievable,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s negotiating delegation, told Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/trump-says-board-of-peace-reaches-agreement-on-disarmament-of-hamas-in-gaza https://archive.ph/UWfEd El Burhan visits newly captured North Kordofan towns Military
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Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System In 2020, the Greek government introduced mandatory registration for organizations seeking to operate inside the camps. The process — costly and discretionary — effectively pushed out most independent groups, forcing them to work on the margins of the system. The result has been a double vacuum: fewer services for camp residents, and less independent monitoring of what happens inside. This is not an accident. The current structure of refugee camps in Greece took shape with the EU’s hotspot approach, introduced in 2015 in response to arrivals by sea from Turkey. Originally designed as spaces for rapid identification and processing on the Aegean islands, hotspots gradually became containment facilities. In 2016, the closure of borders by Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia left tens of thousands of people stranded in Greece, giving authorities a pretext to set up what were framed as emergency structures but have since become permanent.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/inside-greeces-refugee-camps-gender-based-violence-is-built-into-the-system/ Unison’s new left leadership: A balance sheet so far Earlier this year, Andrea Egan was voted in as general secretary of Unison. Consequently, Britain’s largest union has a left-winger as leader for the first time in its history. This development brims with potential. Unison’s bureaucracy has consistently acted as an agent of the ruling class within the labour movement, holding back the class struggle in Britain at every major juncture. The union, indeed, possesses a vast apparatus, thoroughly tied to the top of the Labour Party, which has acted to put the brakes on every move towards industrial action – not only by its own rank and file, but across the trade union movement. A left-wing Unison leadership – acting in the interests of grassroots members, and not of the employers and establishment – would therefore be an important step forward for the entire workers’ movement. Egan’s election, meanwhile, could not have come at a better time: one of deepening crisis for British capitalism and its representatives, and of massive anger within the ranks of the working class.
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‘Bibi, You Can’t Hide!’: Protests Follow Netanyahu Everywhere as He Visits Trump in DC American support for Israel has only continued to curdle as Trump has plunged deeper into a war with Iran that Netanyahu has goaded him to escalate; Israeli settlers have rampaged across the West Bank committing what have been described as “pogroms” against Palestinians; and the Israel Defense Forces have flattened entire neighborhoods in Lebanon, displacing over a million people.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-dc-protests Federal immigration authorities targeting airports for arrests In an effort to ramp up deportations, federal immigration authorities have a new tactic: arresting people who overstay their visas in airports, according to an immigration memo obtained by ABC News. The arrests have occurred across the country in at least nine states from California to Virginia, and immigration lawyers are warning their clients about the risk to domestic travel, according to a source.
https://abcnews.com/US/federal-immigration-authorities-targeting-airports-arrests/story?id=135170980 Obama endorses Iowa Democrat Turek for the US Senate in a video of them playing basketball Iowa Democrat Josh Turek got an assist Wednesday from former President Barack Obama, who endorsed his bid to flip a Republican-held U.S. Senate seat in a video of the two shooting hoops. … With months to go before the midterm elections, Obama is already throwing his weight behind candidates this cycle. He joined U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico at a taco shop in Texas in May.
https://apnews.com/article/obama-josh-turek-iowa-senate-571bcd5377eca160eac686f57875f663 Casar Demands Hearing After OpenAI Model Goes ‘Full Cybercriminal’ on Another Firm US Rep. Greg Casar on Wednesday called for a congressional hearing following reporting that the OpenAI artificial intelligence model that autonomously breached the systems of the open-source pla
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Fire erupts on ships at Egypt’s Damietta port The Reuters news agency, citing British maritime security company Ambrey, reported that a US-owned floating storage tanker at the port had been hit by a drone. Crew members were evacuated, and the fire was brought under control, the report said. There has not been any claim of responsibility. The incident comes as US President Donald Trump promised to hit Iran “hard” following a wave of Iranian missile attacks targeting US bases in the region and US-Saudi Arabia joint attacks on a Tehran-backed armed group in Iraq, which killed at least 20 fighters.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/fire-erupts-on-ships-at-egypts-damietta-port https://archive.ph/5HGMC Israeli forces assault MK while storming memorial event for slain Palestinian activist Israeli border police assaulted a Knesset member on Tuesday while storming a memorial event for a slain Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank — a move described as showing Israeli forces' "clear descent into fascism". The attack took place in Umm al-Khair at a memorial gathering for Awda Hathaleen, who was killed in 2025.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-assault-mk-storm-vigil-palestinian-activist Ahmet Davutoglu, former PM turned Erdogan critic, ends political career “This is not a decision of surrender. It is a decision to distance ourselves morally. This is not giving up on politics; it is a call for everyone to rethink politics,” he said. He warned that the introduction of the executive presidential system in 2018 had eliminated checks and balances and accelerated authoritarianism, which “could give way to a permanent authoritarian system.” Davutoglu founded the Future Party in 2019, hoping to draw voters away from Erdogan's long-time ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and create an alternative conservative movement with democratic credentials.
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India’s Massive Gen Z “Cockroach” Protests Show How to Fight Modi and the Right India is being rocked by massive youth-led protests, sparked by an inflammatory statement by the Supreme Court of India’s Chief Justice, Surya Kant. In a May hearing, Kant said, “There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment and don’t have any place in the profession.” This caused widespread outrage among the youth who have now claimed the “cockroach” label and taken to the streets in unprecedentedly large numbers, showing the way forward in fighting the right-wing administration of Narendra Modi.
https://www.leftvoice.org/india-gen-z-cockroach-protests/ The Left Is Rising, So Centrist Dems Are Cynically Woke Again Remember when establishment Democrats were saying with a straight face that they had been forced to adopt the grating, alienating brand of wokeness and identity politics that made them toxic to working-class voters? You should: it wasn’t even two years ago.
After handing the White House to Donald Trump a second time and scrambling to dump the blame on someone else, Democrats did what they usually do when they royally screw up: they blamed the Left, pretending that this deeply unpopular and cynical political style — whose hallmarks include shallow appeals to racial and gender identity, questionable insinuations of bigotry against their political opponents, and a fixation on bashing men, a demographic the party is desperate to win back — was something that had been forced on them by progressives and socialists. As this magazine pointed out at the time, this was pretty rich. There are certainly forces on the progressive left, rooted in college campuses and nonprofit groups, that stoked and continue to stoke the worst of wokeness. But it was Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him that had been saying the way forward was a politics that put people’s bread-and-butter concerns front and center and divisive identity politics and finger-wagging to the side. For their troubles, establishment Democrats lined up to declare them a bunch of racist, sexist “Bernie Bros,” even secret right-wingers who, being white guys, were out of touch with a voting public that wanted to only talk about race and gender, and that they should move out of the way entirely. (Why is the Dem
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone Lawsuit claims US civil rights agency has halted all federal-sector class complaints The lawsuit claims that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered an indefinite suspension of federal-sector class complaints pending before the agency’s administrative judges, who handle discrimination complaints from federal workers in a process that is different than for private sector workers.
https://apnews.com/article/eeoc-lawsuit-civil-rights-6761f05373f225c530d396aa6f874b97 Imprisoned writer Mumia Abu-Jamal seeks UN intervention after 44 years behind bars On Tuesday Abu-Jamal, 72, lodged a petition with the UN’s working group on arbitrary detention, a body within the Human Rights Council. It marks the latest attempt by the internationally renowned prisoner and prolific author of 15 books to seek relief, having exhausted all domestic channels through state and federal courts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/mumia-abu-jamal-un-jail Almost nobody wants this SEC change Individual investors overwhelmingly oppose the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to ease the requirement that companies release quarterly financial reports. More than 99% of the comments opposed the proposal, according to a new tally. The agency has received some 221,000 comments in total — a record number, a person familiar with the agency's operations tells Axios.
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Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister Lawyers are “scared” of doing their jobs following contempt of court charges made against a top barrister who defended a Palestine Action activist, senior legal figures say. Defence lawyer Rajiv Menon KC was due to stand trial on Tuesday, accused of defying a judge’s order by telling a jury they had the right to acquit activists according to their conscience. Menon denies he acted improperly.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/27/lawyers-scared-to-do-their-jobs-after-charges-against-palestine-action-barrister/ French far right reviewing potential tweaks to retirement reform proposal One such option is to scrap a rule that allows individuals to retire on a full pension at 67, even if they haven’t paid in long enough to otherwise qualify, as reported last month by POLITICO. …. the National Rally is also looking into a potentially controversial proposal which would encourage workers to contribute to private pension schemes in addition to paying into the state system — a proposal long supported by fiscal conservatives.
https://www.politico.eu/article/national-rally-marine-le-pen-battle-rages-far-right-fix-france-pensions/ https://archive.ph/4kzEh Four decades after Chernobyl, a generational divide reshapes Italy’s nuclear debate Next week, Parliament is expected to approve government-sponsored legislation establishing a legal framework for next-generation nuclear technologies. The government would then have 12 months to draft implementing decrees covering reactor licensing, safety standards, waste management and siting.
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During new military incursion | Israeli machineguns attack western Daraa countryside An Israeli forces patrol of two tanks and a military vehicle, advanced into the outskirts of Wadi Al-Raqad in Al-Yarmouk Basin area in western Daraa countryside, this coincided with attacks with machineguns on the agricultural land and the road leading to Wadi Al-Raqad.
However, no casualties have been reported.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/384828/ Oman proposes joint control of Strait of Hormuz as mediators expect talks 'breakthrough' According to two sources who spoke to Reuters, the Gulf-backed plan proposes a joint regional mechanism to manage the key waterway, with those using it paying voluntary fees to fund the cost of its maintenance. This will include funding to cover navigation, environmental protection and search and rescue services. The proposal draws on the model of the Strait of Malacca, which lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is jointly managed by neighbouring states Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oman-proposes-joint-management-strait-hormuz-mediators-expect-breakthrough-talks Gaza's Palestinians question role and limits of planned multinational force According to Israeli media reports, the initial phase would involve deploying approximately 200 personnel from countries described as "friendly," including Uganda and Morocco. The force would oversee areas outside Israeli military deployment zones while coordinating closely with the Israeli army. The proposal also includes establishing a humanitarian zone known as "Green Rafah" west of Rafah city, where displaced Palestinians would be relocated after passing through Israeli security checkpoints.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gazas-palestinians-question-role-limits-multinational-force Africa's richest monarch names a $1 billion highway designed to connect Europe and West Africa after Trump Trump recently thanked K
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CP of Pakistan, Communist Party of Pakistan's statement on the escalating situation in Balochistan The Communist Party of Pakistan strongly condemns the ongoing military escalation and violence in Balochistan. Once again, the ruling elites have responded to a political distress and national question with military operations, maximizing security powers and repression. This is nothing new but the same failed policy repeated for decades, always promising peace but delivering only more bloodshed, more enforced disappearances, more displacement and deeper alienation between the Baloch people and the state. Every military operation has bred greater mistrust, intensified resentment and reproduced the very conditions that fuel further conflict. This security-centric policy has been sustained by the systematic destruction of democratic politics. Just as in the rest of the country, the military establishment has repeatedly imposed puppet governments on the people of Balochistan through blatantly manipulated elections. These civilian administrations possess no meaningful decision-making authority. They function merely as a civilian façade for military hegemony, while all major political decisions remain concentrated in unelected institutions. Balochistan stands today at one of the most dangerous crossroads in its modern history because the ruling elites continue to refuse a political solution to what is fundamentally a political and national question.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Pakistan-Communist-Party-of-Pakistans-statement-on-the-escalating-situation-in-Balochistan/ The Iron Felix: 100 years since the death of Felix Dzerzhinsky One hundred years ago, on 20 July 1926, the international communist movement lost one of its most steadfast revolutionaries. At just 49 years old, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky—remembered forever as the "Iron Felix"—passed away after suffering a heart attack, only hours after delivering a lengthy speech to the Plenary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on the country's economic situation. Dzerzhinsky was not born into the working class. Born in 1877 into a relatively well-off Polish family, he consciously abandoned privilege and devoted his entire life to the
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Just one in three Americans back Iran war, most unsure of Trump's goals, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Trump has offered shifting objectives for the conflict such as aiding Iranians to topple their leaders, taking out Iran's ballistic-missile capabilities and preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The poll found that 69% of Americans — including four in 10 Republicans - think Trump has not "clearly explained the goals of U.S. military involvement in Iran."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/just-one-three-americans-back-iran-war-most-unsure-trumps-goals-reutersipsos-2026-07-27/ Consolidated food supply may be worsening cyclospora outbreaks, experts say Food safety experts say decades of consolidation across farming, processing and distribution have increased the potential for a single contamination event to spread nationwide. Taylor Farms’ expansion through acquisitions and the dominance of distributors such as Sysco and US Foods illustrate how fewer companies now handle a larger share of the nation’s fresh produce.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/cyclospora-outbreak-food-industry-consolidation.html New Trump Asylum Rule Would Send Hundreds of Thousands of Applicants Straight to Deportation Proceedings US asylum law requires the government to give asylum seekers a “reasonable opportunity” to present evidence that they face persecution in their country of origin as a result of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-asylum-rules-interviews Mitch McConnell still not cleared to resume Senate duties, office says An update released alongside a new photograph of the Republican lawmaker – one of the highest-profile figures in Congress, as a former Senate majority leader – said he was undergoing “intense physical therapy” and is “working hard” to get back to his duties.
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Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years ago More than 50 years after the murder of the Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the last man wanted in connection with his death has been tracked down and brought to justice. Nelson Haase Mazzei, a retired colonel, fled from authorities in 2023 after he and six other retired soldiers were sentenced in absentia for murdering Jara and another man.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/27/pinochet-era-soldier-jailed-for-killing-folk-singer-victor-jara-chile Colombia’s “Shield of the Americas” to operate from Medellin: De la Espriella Medellin will be the home of the US-led “Shield of the Americas” security program, according to Colombia’s President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella and Mayor Federico Gutierrez. At a meeting with authorities from the Antioquia province, De la Espriella and Gutierrez agreed that Colombia’s second largest city is the “head of the snake of drug trafficking and organized crime.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-shield-of-the-americas-to-operate-from-medellin-de-la-espriella/ Over nine million workers now informally employed in Argentina Argentina’s economy is starting to look tidier when it comes to macroeconomics, but that improvement has not yet translated into a clear recovery in the job market. Unemployment levels remain virtually at the same level as a year ago, but there are worrying signs such as the growth of informal work, which already affects 44.4 percent of workers, or four out of every nine.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/over-nine-million-workers-now-informally-employed-in-argentina.phtml https://archive.ph/IrmrA Wildfires: The ominous 'fire clouds' or 'pyrocumulonimbus' seen in France for the first time French firefighters are grappl
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