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120 results in /leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect OP/ED News Anon 3.0 06-11-26 00:19:31 No. 2949065
Italian workers mobilise against backdrop of political rethinking and economic stagnation LAST weekend saw demonstrations in over 50 cities and towns in Italy. This testifies to the strength of feeling against the Meloni government but also to the organisational and political reach of the Unione Sindicale di Base (USB), which has been prominent among the so-called base unions that fill the gap left by the existing union confederations. These, to one degree or another, are integrated into the system of social partnership at the practical if not the official level and into the EU’s consensus. This neoliberal orthodoxy straddles the middle ground in Italian politics and increasingly the Meloni administration. It is not by accident that this nationwide mobilisation is taking place at the same time as diverse sectors in other countries are taking to the streets. Also significant last weekend were the actions by port workers across four continents that linked the economic demands of workers throughout the capitalist world with the campaign against war and arms exports. The most powerful anti-war dock strikes took place in the Mediterranean ports. In France, the CGT-led actions in 24 ports; USB and Orsa Porti struck in nine Italian ports; while in 10 Greek and three Turkish ports strikes were effective. Various actions took place in Tangier, the Basque country, Spain and Cyprus while bad weather stalled strikes in 11 Indian ports. That Palestinian flags are ubiquitous whenever people take to the streets is a sign that a fissure is opening up everywhere the drive to profit dominates. The red thread running through these events is the “cost of life” but wider demands, especially against precarity, austerity and war manifest themselves.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/italian-workers-mobilise-against-backdrop-political-rethinking-and-economic-stagnation Thoughts on the Midterms: Chris Hedges The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not simply a battle to hold the corrupt Trump regime to account, something that can only be done if the Democrats are willing to overcome their reluc
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AIPAC hails US midterm wins despite costly election defeats The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has claimed victory for hundreds of candidates in the US midterm elections, despite spending millions to bolster pro-Israel politicians and suffering high-profile defeats at the hands of candidates critical of Washington's military support for Israel. In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, the powerful pro-Israel lobby said "more than 234 candidates supported by AIPAC members" had won, with additional races still undecided.
https://www.newarab.com/news/aipac-hails-us-midterm-wins-despite-costly-election-defeats Citibank office shooter targeted company over a $2,500 debt collection, Florida sheriff says About three hours before Wednesday’s shooting, Jacob Pearson called an attorney affiliated with Citibank and threatened violence, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told a news conference. On the phone, Pearson demanded that the lawyer cancel a court hearing over Pearson’s unpaid credit card debt “unless you want me to go over there with my AR-15, my bulletproof vest and my insanity,” Chronister said.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-citibank-shooting-gunman-victim-4a9dc81997caecc178a8ff486ee0c572 Division among US Democrats over Schumer’s leadership role The Democratic leader said on Wednesday the party’s new Senate plan would include launching investigations into the Trump administration, challenging the president’s agenda and ending his war in Iran. However, that’s not good enough for some current members, like Van Hollen, who recently told Bloomberg that Democrats should not commit to Schumer without promises of a “bold agenda”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/5/division-among-us-democrats-over-schumers-leadership-role https://archive.ph/N6UeU Rep-elect Valdez not decided on Jef Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 11/5/26 News Anon 3.0 05-11-26 23:30:54 No. 2949040 [Reply]
SACP emerges as surprise performer in 2026 LGE after ANC split The South African Communist Party (SACP) is emerging as one of the surprise performers in the 2026 local government elections after contesting separately from its long-time alliance partner, the African National Congress (ANC). Early results show the SACP polling particularly strongly in the Eastern Cape, where it has secured more than 6% of the vote, and is third behind the ANC and the Democratic Alliance (DA), while outperforming both the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The party is also recording encouraging support in Limpopo and the North West.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-emerges-as-one-of-the-surprise-performers-of-lge-2026/ Kenya’s mining ambitions raise fears for farms and ancestral graves Farmers fear losing the land that feeds them. Community elders worry about damage to a forest where their ancestors are buried. Both are demanding answers about Kenya’s plans to mine valuable minerals beneath Mrima Hill, a forested area rich in niobium and rare earth elements.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-rare-earth-minerals-mining-mrima-hill-sacred-forest-ancestral-graves-bff1808954d85249f2df92265e6df194 Arab-led Joint List says it will back Eisenkot to form Israel's next government The alliance, which comprises three Arab-led factions, said its decision came despite the opposition's failure to sufficiently challenge Netanyahu's political direction, incitement against Arab citizens and attempts to undermine the legitimacy of their electoral choices. However, the endorsements do not necessarily mean the Arab parties will join an Eisenkot-led government. The Joint List has said it is prepared to support an opposition government from outside the governing coalition, rather than take ministerial positions.
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International dockers strike shows how to defeat imperialism Dockworkers play a fundamental role in the global supply chains that imperialism relies upon, particularly since the start of the war in Ukraine and the wars on Gaza and Iran. It is no accident that Friday’s strike was taken up by workers across Europe in particular, given that the continent has become the world’s biggest arms importer over the last five years. The workers involved in loading and unloading the weapons of imperialist war are not blind to the significance of the role that they play. Announcing the strike, the unions involved rightly denounced the militarisation of dockers’ workplaces: “From planes to tanks, guns to bullets, explosives to ammunition, uniforms to boots, our ports have become replenishing and forwarding bases for war and genocide.” It is precisely this pivotal position in the transport network that gives dockworkers their unique ability to cripple the war machine. Organisers estimated that Friday’s strike could have disrupted as many 52,000 containers with a total value of $2.8 billion. This shows the enormous power that has remained latent in this layer of workers. It is not hard to imagine the immense impact that action on an even larger scale by this militant section of workers could achieve. This is an invaluable lesson that the workers’ movement in general should pay attention to.
https://marxist.com/international-dockers-strike-shows-how-to-defeat-imperialism.htm We Need a Socialist Congressional Caucus The new socialist legislators, all of whom ran on the Democratic Party ballot line, can be expected (like Tlaib, AOC, and Sanders) to caucus with the Democrats. Despite achieving a meaningful beachhead in the legislature and being joined by left-populist allies like Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Maine’s Troy Jackson, socialists will still be a tiny minority within the Democratic caucus. The growing left wing will have to figure out how to coordinate effectively with each other while operating within the “big tent” of the larger congressional party. That party is full of members committed to pro-corporate and militarist agendas, and avowed anti-socialists Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are likely to be its leaders. The socialist legislators, on the othe
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AMA promises delayed employee pay will be issued after banking system failure Officials at the Metropolitan Bus Authority (AMA by its acronym in Spanish) said Monday that employees affected by delayed payroll deposits were slated to receive their outstanding payments by the end of the day, as the agency works with Banco Popular to resolve a system issue that disrupted service and delayed the departure of dozens of buses. AMA President Luis González Rosario attributed the payroll delay to a problem with Banco Popular’s electronic payment system, rejecting suggestions that the agency had failed to process employee compensation on time.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/ama-promises-delayed-employee-pay-will-be-issued-after-banking-system-failure Democratic Socialists of America see record wins in US midterm elections In Michigan, DSA member Rashida Tlaib was re-elected to her seat in the US House, member Donavan McKinney was elected to the body for the first time, and William Lawrence defeated a Republican candidate for a highly competitive US House seat. Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia who has also been outspoken on her views on issues like opposing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and abolishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was elected to office with a wide margin to represent Colorado in the House.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/4/democratic-socialists-of-america-see-record-wins-in-us-midterm-elections https://archive.ph/L6sxt Progressive group calls for Senate Dems to replace Schumer as leader Newly elected Senate Democrats in Michigan, Kansas, Illinois and Maine have all publicly stated they would not back Schumer as majority leader next term. Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D) told Louisiana-based magazine Current Affairs in May that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) was his “number one pick for majority leader.”
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Bangladesh agrees new garment pay scale from December amid protests "The new wage structure will be implemented from December, and workers will receive their first salaries under the revised pay scale in January," Akter said. The six-member board was formed this week amid growing labour unrest and includes representatives of workers and factory owners. It is responsible for reviewing pay in Bangladesh's garment industry. Workers are demanding the monthly minimum wage be raised to 30,000 taka ($242) from 12,500 taka, saying rising food, housing and transport costs have eroded their purchasing power.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-wage-board-meets-garment-worker-protests-continue-2026-11-04/ Regime Threatens Migrant Workers in Thailand Over Document Boycott Migrants are boycotting the CI process as the cash-strapped junta attempts to wring more money out of them. Workers applying for the document must now prove that they remit at least 25 percent of their wages to Myanmar through official channels, as well as a 2 percent income tax payment. Official channels offer far less favorable exchange rates than unofficial channels.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/regime-threatens-migrant-workers-in-thailand-over-document-boycott.html Fisherfolk and community residents hold Revillas accountable for demolition in Cavite “The floating houses here in Longos are now being destroyed and suddenly dragged away without notice. I could not stop it because the perpetrators are coast guards. I could do nothing—even my dog was taken away,” recounted Ricardo Bagongong, fisherfolk leader and organizer of Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya, or National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines)-Cavite.
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Haley Stevens’ Endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers Signals Deep Divide within the Democratic Party It would be a mistake to view Stevens’ concerns as just her own. They are the real concerns of the Democratic Party establishment, which has made it clear that it will fight to sideline the Left inside the party and uphold the class character of the Democratic Party as a party of capital. While the Democratic Party establishment condemned Stevens for her endorsement of Rogers and even removed her from an El-Sayed election rally for her public criticisms of him, it should not be assumed that the party’s establishment and the Left have “unified.” The establishment Democrats are embracing El-Sayed in ways they are not embracing Florida Dem Senate candidate Angie Nixon because Michigan is a swing state and El-Sayed has shown his willingness to work with the establishment and embrace more centrist politics. The most prominent examples of this are his meeting with Kamala Harris, his public support for capitalism, and his rejection of defunding the police. Stevens’s defection shows that sectors of the Democratic Party will side with the Right rather than cede space to campaigns that challenge to some degree a status quo in which capitalists are free to profit while working people can’t make ends meet, billions of dollars are sent to support genocide and imperialist war, and immigrants are targeted for deportation and detention using the most violent xenophobic rhetoric. The Democratic Party exists to keep capitalist profits flowing and U.S. imperialism dominant while mediating discontent from below. Whether El-Sayed wins or not on Tuesday, he and other other progressive populist candidates face this opposition from within their own party. This spells trouble for their ability to push their agenda through Congress, and for a strategy that relies on an imperialist party to make gains for the working class and oppressed.
https://www.leftvoice.org/haley-stevens-endorsement-of-republican-mike-rogers-signals-deep-divide-within-the-democratic-party/ The Turkish Soap Opera of Venezuela Business Dealings In Venezuela, reality feels more and more like a puzzle. We have to look at what officials choose to say and not say, what
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Trump’s agenda meets the ballot box as states vote on abortion, redistricting and voter ID mandates battle over abortion rights is playing out in several states Tuesday as voters decide 145 proposed laws and constitutional amendments, including some that could affect voting for future elections. The ballot measures provide a political undercard for a high-profile midterm election that will determine which party controls Congress, state legislatures and gubernatorial offices in many states.
https://apnews.com/article/ballot-issues-abortion-redistricting-transgender-fe17112e9538f5e4ed5907f6d1f5b470 Millions of Americans crippled by medical debt despite relief efforts In 2024, people in the United States owed at least $220bn in medical debt, according to KFF, a non-profit health research group. About 14 million people owed more than $1,000, and 3 million owed more than $10,000.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/medical-debt-healthcare New Jersey governor warns ports against accepting Russian diesel Since the license was granted, Russia has dispatched multiple diesel tankers to the United States, including at least one that may be headed for the New Jersey coast, Sherill said. Sherill said the Russian Oil Act does not allow blanket sanctions waivers unless Russia withdraws its forces from Ukraine, which has not occurred.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/new-jersey-governor-warns-ports-against-accepting-russian-diesel-2026-11-03/ Tennessee national guard trained guns on dying man after guard member shot him, video shows The Shelby county district attorney’s office released the videos, which also include footage from stationary cameras and a cellphone from a bystander, as the Tennessee bureau of investigation continues its investigation into the 5 July shooting of Tyrin Johnson.
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Indonesia detains 3 police generals suspected of wiretapping president Police identified the suspects as Presidential Chief of Staff Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, National Police Legal Division head Insp. Gen. Ahrie Sonta Nasution and Insp. Gen. Eko Hadi Santoso, a senior instructor at the National Police Education and Training Institute. All three were detained at the National Police headquarters detention center, Safrudin said.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-police-illegal-wiretapping-president-prabowo-subianto-6355095547af3e3a0dc2b22768a09d35 Bangladesh garment workers stage fourth day of wage protests In Ashulia, police fired tear gas and sound grenades after protesters threw bricks and stones at law enforcement personnel, said Mohammad Mominul Islam Bhuiyan, superintendent of Ashulia Industrial Police. Similar crowd-control measures were used in Dhaka's Mirpur area, police said. Additional security forces were deployed to contain the unrest, police said. Several factories in Gazipur and Ashulia again suspended operations or declared holidays after nearly 700 factories shut a day earlier.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/bangladesh-garment-workers-stage-fourth-day-wage-protests-2026-11-03/ Tens of thousands protest against Narendra Modi regime in Delhi Opposition leaders have alleged the process gives Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) an electoral advantage, and have called for the resignation and impeachment of the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar. The BJP has denied the claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/india-opposition-protest-rally-delhi China’s Communist Party plenum targets passive ‘nice’ guys in anti-corruption push The party has long criticised cadres who play it safe by being “nice” and trade political favours to build their own cliques, but explicitly targeting su
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Out of the EU, for a Socialist Austria! :Deputy Chairman of the Party of Labour of Austria Even a quarter of a century after the last World Savings Day of the schilling era, nostalgia for Austria’s former currency remains widespread, as sociologist Klaus Kraemer explained to Austria’s public broadcaster ORF on Saturday. But this sentiment reflects more than nostalgic memories: it also expresses legitimate concerns about the economic future. And hardly without reason. The capitalist crisis, high inflation, rising rents, relentless attacks on the welfare state and years of declining wages have left their mark on people’s lives. On the contrary, what they once regarded as secure is being systematically dismantled, piece by piece, in the interests of capital. Neither a return to the schilling nor simply withdrawing from the European Union can resolve these problems. What is needed is the organized economic and political struggle of the working class against the dictatorship of the banks and corporations.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/11/out-of-eu-for-socialist-austria.html Workers of the World, Invest: the corporate adventures of The Canary 2026 was not the first time the Canary experienced turmoil. It is a left project after all. Historically, it faced significant advertising revenue issues due to a boycott campaign organised by a group called Stop Funding Fake News. In 2022, it experienced an internal takeover by staff and was turned into a worker co-op. In the March 2025 text, the Canary Workers Coop describing the takeover as a “workers’ revolution”, shared some details of their investigation into the former Canary management. “Even by the standards of corporate capitalist criminals, the Canary finances and systems were a mess. Our latest set of official accounts were a veritable clusterfuck of irregularities.”, the workers said. Further, the workers describe the practice of the management paying themselves dividends and how this was beneficial to them in terms of easing their personal tax burden as well as a tool to hide the disparities between the regular worker pay and the pay of the management team. Sadly, the workers’ revolution at the Canary appears to be short-lived, for only a few months after the March 2025 text, the Canary quietly went back to
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Aguada mayor refutes ACLU’s assertion regarding municipal police collaboration in ICE raids Aguada Mayor Christian E. Cortés Feliciano on Wednesday refuted statements made by Fermín Arraiza, legal director of the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In a press conference the previous day, Arraiza alleged that members of the Aguada Municipal Police had participated alongside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the unlawful arrests of individuals with an undefined immigration status.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/aguada-mayor-refutes-aclu-s-assertion-regarding-municipal-police-collaboration-in-ice-raids KFC and Taco Bell restaurants close across Puerto Rico as they seek new franchise partner Puerto Rico’s first KFC restaurant opened in 1967, while Encanto Restaurants began operating Taco Bell in 1985, according to the company. Encanto Restaurants also operates Pizza Hut and IHOP restaurants in the U.S. territory. Overall, it operates 180 restaurants on the island and employs more than 3,000 people.
https://apnews.com/article/kfc-taco-bell-puerto-rico-close-encanto-yum-27380d9d90bffe9cc7def8f873b0a65c ICE rapidly re-arresting immigrants released after winning court petitions Increasing arrests and detentions have led to immigrants filing more than 91,000 habeas petitions as they seek to challenge their detentions, according to research by ProPublica. More petitions have been filed since 25 January than during the past three presidential administrations, including Trump’s first term, combined, the outlet found.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/immigrants-released-after-court-petitions-ice-arrest Ex-Chicago FBI chief says he was ousted over a failed protesters case, sues Justice Department Douglas DePodesta, a 24-year veteran of the FBI, says in the suit against top
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Bangladesh garment factories disrupted as protests continue for third day About 500 factories were temporarily shuttered after the protests began on Saturday. Thousands of workers have taken to the streets, facing tear gas and sound grenades from police. In an attempt to quell the demonstrations, Bangladesh formed a new wage board on Sunday to review the minimum wage for garment workers. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, meanwhile, held an emergency meeting with his ministers and advisers. Workers are seeking a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka ($242), more than double the current wage of 12,500 taka ($101).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/2/bangladesh-garment-factories-disrupted-as-protests-continue-for-third-day https://archive.ph/knGLA Milei's boom-and-bust economy sparks exodus from Buenos Aires While investors including billionaire Peter Thiel plow money into oil and gas down south, lithium in the north and copper out west, those investments haven’t yet trickled down to the real economy in Buenos Aires and other metro areas that tend to determine presidential elections. Instead, job losses, soaring utility bills and indebted households solidify a feeling among middle class Argentines that the economic growth is evading them. Over 32,000 businesses have closed since he took office, bringing the total number of private-sector employers to the lowest level since 2007.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/mileis-boom-and-bust-economy-sparks-exodus-from-buenos-aires.phtml https://archive.ph/y2Ppl Powerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify Wilson Joseph, best known as Lanmò Sanjou and leader of the 400 Mawozo gang, sent the letter on Monday, and the U.N. has received it, a source who wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation confirmed. The letter calls 400 Mawozo a “rebel group” and was sent from Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, where a group of four
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What Lula’s victory means for Palestine solidarity in Brazil Over the weekend, Brazilians elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva president once more by a very narrow margin, defying polls that had him trailing. No candidate had won a Brazilian runoff from second place since 1989. That precedent is broken, and it was broken from below: by student-led rallies in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre. The rallies were called without Lula, by pop-star fan communities and influencers who injected energy into a campaign that had flagged all year, and by widespread mass communications like Deputy André Janones's WhatsApp channel, which passed 10 million followers. Many of those young figures have been vocal on Palestine. Their job now is to make sure their government hears them. That mobilisation will matter all the more given the political landscape Lula faces. The Congress that convenes on 1 February will comprise 594 members, 513 deputies and 81 senators, with the right and its allies holding a comfortable majority in both houses. With 90 members close to the Palestinian struggle, the challenge will be to turn that support, alongside pressure from civil society, into concrete political action.
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/what-lulas-victory-means-palestine-solidarity-brazil Serbia: A whole list of monopolies and geopolitical rivalries behind the “Student List” (Kostas Papadakis member of the Central Committee of the KKE and a Member of the European Parliament) We must not forget, of course, that Serbia has for many years been at the center of fierce rivalries between the EU, the United States and NATO on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. It plays an important role in the outcome of the broader struggle for control over the Balkans. The elections were therefore inevitably shaped by competing powerful interests, as well as by an extensive effort to restructure the bourgeois political system. The principal vehicle for this restructuring was the “Student List” (hereafter SL), which emerged victorious with 52% of the vote. In May 2025, a process began to establish a political movement that would capitalize on the prestige of the student mobilizations, which had already continued for six months, as well as on the support of s
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More than 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens not on California’s voter rolls: analysis The research found that 8,880 of the names, representing 42% of the entire list, do not correspond to anyone in California’s current voter file. It also found at least 22 are U.S. citizens, and many more may correspond to those of confirmed citizens. “The expert analysis further makes clear that the mandated voter list endangers a significant number of eligible California voter,” said the filing, which was cosigned by Xavier Becerra, the Democratic candidate for California governor and an adviser to the UCLA Voting Rights Project.
https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-noncitizen-voters-midterms-45b31d5aefb03723f0e59f6084e918d4 Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign asks Haley Stevens not to attend campaign events following clash over Israel “This ad tells Michigan families they cannot afford groceries because their money has to be set aside for ‘killing Palestinians,’ and it blames our close ally Israel for everything Michiganders cannot afford,” Stevens said in a statement. She sought to tie the ad — which is set in a grocery store and suggests Israel and the war in Gaza are squeezing American taxpayers — to comments El-Sayed has made in his own campaign.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/haley-stevens-abdul-el-sayed-clash-israel-ad-ahead-sunday-rally-rcna606657 Record-High Heating Oil Prices Are Closing Argument in Maine Senate Race The record-shattering heating prices are taking their toll on Mainers ahead of the midterm elections on November 3. Roughly half of Mainers rely on heating oil as their principal energy source in winter—compared with just 3% nationwide—meaning Mainers face an increase of thousands of dollars in heating. The heating oil price hikes are directly affected by the war in Iran and closure of the strait of Hormuz, which handles roughly 20% to 25% of the world’s seaborne oil and petroleum product flow. Sen. Susan Collins voted to extend U.S. military operations in Iran fi
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Left parties stage protest against price rise in Puducherry Workers of the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) on Saturday staged a demonstration in the town to highlight the failure of the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre and Puducherry to control the prices of essential commodities.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/left-parties-stage-protest-against-price-rise-in-puducherry/article71649394.ece https://archive.ph/y0vPM Japan pushes to remove Myanmar from global financial watchdog's blacklist Japan wants the Financial Action Task Force to drop requirements that its members apply enhanced screening to financial transactions with Myanmar to avoid money laundering and terrorist financing, said a senior Japanese government official and another person familiar with the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-pushes-remove-myanmar-global-financial-watchdogs-blacklist-2026-10-30/ China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says China is by far the largest global supplier of renewable energy equipment, from solar panels and wind turbines to electric vehicles and batteries. Most of what it makes is sold domestically, but a sizeable share is exported. In the first nine months of 2026, CREA tracked a 61% increase in exports of electric vehicles, a 45% jump in shipments of wind turbines, a 39% spike in battery exports and 22% growth in overseas sales of solar equipment, compared to the same period last year.
https://apnews.com/article/emissions-china-renewable-iran-exports-solar-7e690fb8b89f8faa82fa241bf551940e 9 years later, parents still seek answers over son’s killing amid ‘drug war’ Post too long. Click here to view the full text. OP/ED News Anon 3.0 31-10-26 02:25:35 No. 2942643
It’s time for the left to stand up to Burnham Far from offering real hope to working people it opens up the prospect of increasing immiseration in the years to come. Far from breaking with the bond market veto over economic policy, it was designed to appease the speculators. Since Andy Burnham’s election many people in the labour movement have argued to suspend judgement on his intentions, to “give him a chance.” That is understandable – Burnham appears the last chance of a Labour Party morally and politically eviscerated by Keir Starmer, and the only thing standing between Britain and a hard-right authoritarian and racist government. But such goodwill cannot be extended indefinitely. John Healey’s measures – or striking lack of them – mark the moment when conclusions must start to be drawn.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/its-time-left-stand-burnham The Andreas Malm Ban Shows How to Blow Up a Democracy The banning of Malm’s ETA comes only four months after Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, two American leftwing political commentators, had their ETAs cancelled shortly before scheduled appearances at SXSW London and the Oxford Union. The then-Keir Starmer government similarly invoked a ‘public good’ argument. What’s more, it was only this month that it was announced that celebrated author Sally Rooney would no longer be able to sell books in the UK, due to her statements of support for proscribed group Palestine Action. While the Home Office does its seeming best to avoid offering specific public explanations for why certain public figures are being barred from entering the UK, you can guarantee that there will be a briefing operation afoot. When Piker and Uygur had their ETAs withdrawn, the media (rather than rallying around the cause of free expression, on which our livelihoods depend) preferred instead to jaw-jaw about whether the two men were antisemitic. I do not doubt that, over the course of today, Malm’s public comments about the legally enshrined right of Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation will find their way into journalist’s briefing notes.
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Trump appointee Bill Pulte’s housing agency obstructed watchdog, report says A top US housing regulator led by Trump appointee Bill Pulte refused to provide records to its internal watchdog, obstructing congressionally mandated reviews of its oversight of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other housing lenders, according to a report reviewed by Reuters on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-appointee-bill-pultes-housing-agency-obstructed-watchdog-report-says-2026-10-30/ Democratic lawmakers demand ICE data on detainee miscarriages Government documents obtained by the Guardian found that ICE had placed more pregnant immigrants in detention last fall and winter than at any time over the previous year. The agency recorded 18 miscarriages during the first nine months of the Trump administration, the documents found, but the agency has no data on miscarriages after 3 October 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/30/democrats-miscarriages-ice-detainees Justice Department requests separating Alaska ballots that rank Dan J. Sullivan in Senate race Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward wrote in a court filing that state officials should “preserve and segregate all ballots ranking Daniel J. Sullivan for the purposes of investigating whether such ranking was the product of voter confusion, should such an investigation become necessary.” “These modest precautionary measures will be impossible after Election Day, so there is good cause for expedited consideration,” he added.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/doj-requests-separating-alaska-ballots-rank-dan-j-sullivan-senate-race-rcna606646 How Mamdani canceled ‘Cop City’ That plan dates back to 2017, when then-Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city would budget $100 million to build a state-of-the-art correction academy. And in 2021, month
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Dockworkers and activists block ports across the world in protest against war, genocide and the arms trade Strike organisers the No Harbour for Genocide campaign, alongside dockworkers’ unions in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Cyprus, described today’s events as the largest co-ordinated port action ever held. “For one day, 52,000 containers stand idle, carrying $2.8 billion (£2bn) worth of goods, before the next day’s backlog, the work stoppages and the general strike in Italy are counted,” No Harbour for Genocide campaign said in an Instagram post today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dockworkers-and-activists-block-ports-across-world-protest-against-war-genocide-and-arms Elbit factory targeted in Palestine Action raid was set to deliver 'immediate shipment of drones' to Israel, court hears Five defendants - Qesser Zuhrah, 21, Zahra Farooque, 26, Kamran Ahmed, 29, Heba Muraisi, 31, and Liam Mullany, 34 - are facing charges of criminal damage and violent disorder at Woolwich Crown Court in connection with the break-in at an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024. Giving evidence this week, Zuhrah, who said she helped coordinate the action, told jurors that she had first heard of the Filton site when others in the group raised concerns "about an immediate shipment of weapons" set to leave the factory and that, as a result, the action had been "speedtracked".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/elbit-factory-targeted-palestine-action-raid-was-set-deliver-immediate-shipment-drones-israel Germany and France brace for protests on Halloween weekend Police plan to deploy thousands of additional officers across the country. Some luxury jewellery shops and clothing stores have boarded up windows to protect against potential looting or violence. Protests in Germany are led by a group dubbed “GenZ regelt!”, which translates to “Gen Z has got this!”. The German protest movement’s complaints include the high cost of living, poorly maintained schools, g
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“Mediacide”: Francesca Albanese on Israel’s War on Journalism UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s new report argues that the destruction of truth has become integral to the destruction of the Palestinian people. The report, “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide,” documents the killing of nearly 300 journalists and media workers in Gaza since October 2023, Israeli state censorship and incitement, and the role of Western media and digital platforms in reproducing Israeli narratives. Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous spoke with Albanese, an Italian international lawyer who has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories since 2022. They discuss what she calls “mediacide,” Israel’s killing of journalists including Drop Site contributor Hossam Shabat, incitement on Israeli TV, bias in Western coverage, and the New York Times’ response to her report. Albanese has faced sustained backlash for her work. When she presented the report to the UN General Assembly on Monday, the Israeli and US representatives called her a “liar,” a “fraud,” and a “lunatic,” and the chair asked speakers to focus on the report’s contents. The US, Israel, and several European governments opposed her reappointment last year. Soon afterward, Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed economic and travel sanctions on her, citing her efforts to push the International Criminal Court to investigate US and Israeli officials and companies. Albanese, who is unpaid in her UN role, says the sanctions have cut her off from banking, and that her US-citizen daughter could commit a felony simply by having financial dealings with her. Her family is now suing the Trump administration.
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https://docs.un.org/A/81/249 https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mediacide-francesca-albanese-on-israels Russia is selling Africa dependence disguised as partnership This week, Moscow will host the third Russia-Africa summit, bringing together African leaders as President Vladimir Putin seeks to expand Russia’s economic, military and political reach across the continent. Yet Russia’s growing influence has done far more to advance Moscow’s interests and protect al
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US senator briefed on Trump's plans to restart Iran war says proposal is 'insane' Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, made the comments after American media reported on Wednesday that the US warned several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military offensive against Iran after the US midterm elections on 3 November. The warning sent by diplomatic and military channels is the latest indication that the US and Israel are preparing to launch another round of attacks against Iran, in an effort to weaken Tehran and force it to negotiations, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-senator-briefed-trump-plan-restart-war-iran-says-proposal-insane Democratic lawmakers decry Osha’s push to roll back worker respiratory protections Under the proposed rules, employers would face fewer requirements to provide workers with respirators masks when working with substances including “lead, asbestos, formaldehyde and inorganic arsenic, among other chemicals”, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Osha assistant secretary, David Keeling, a former UPS and Amazon executive.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/warren-lawmakers-osha-worker-respiratory-protection Trump administration attempts to take down leak of ICE personnel data The letter accused FlokiNET of violating its terms of service by publishing a “stolen” employee dataset and asked it to “remove or disable” the information. “The content is live and places more than 40,000 identifiable individuals at risk of harassment, stalking, and physical harm,” the letter said. FlokiNET said the letter concerned one domain, icepi.cx, which has compiled information about employees from a range of DHS agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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El Salvador to send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti for rescue while elections postponed El Salvador will send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue missing personnel and support anti-gang security operations, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, while Haiti's electoral council postponed planned presidential elections to next year. The Caribbean's most populous nation has not held elections since 2016 and its last president was assassinated in 2021. Successive transitional leaders have postponed a vote citing insecurity as armed criminal organizations expand their territories.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-postpones-first-presidential-election-decade-july-2027-2026-10-29/ Venezuelan Gov’t Demands Return of UK-Held Gold, Eyes Production Increase The freeze on the reserves, currently valued at around US $4 billion, dates back to the United Kingdom’s refusal to recognize Nicolás Maduro’s 2018 reelection. A year later, opposition leader Juan Guaidó formally asked British authorities to prevent the Venezuelan government from accessing the gold. During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rodríguez described the ongoing freeze as a theft.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-demands-return-of-uk-held-gold-eyes-production-increase/ Carney government announces plans to privatize major Canadian airports At the Canada Investment Summit held in Toronto last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled plans to open up Canada’s four largest airports to private investors. The government’s goal is to free up “the capital that is tied up in those airports” so it can be “redeployed potentially in other ventures that will grow our economy.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/29/hwen-o29.html Netanyahu claims Palestinians ‘stole’ elections as Qatar slams 'ridiculous and dangerous' allegations Israeli politicians and media outlets aligned with the government have accuse
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13 European Communist Youth organizations hail student protests, back dockworkers' strike “The Communist Youth organizations signing this statement salute the tremendous mobilizations of school students, university students and young workers that have taken place in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Albania and other European countries in recent weeks, fighting for education, work and a life that meets the possibilities offered by the 21st century. The great waves of young people surging through the streets of Europe are creating images of optimism and hope. They demonstrate that the organized people, through their struggle, can leave their mark on developments. We denounce the repression unleashed by the bourgeois states, resulting in injuries to demonstrators, including school students, thousands of arrests, and attempts to slander these struggles. It is once again confirmed that anti-people policies are necessarily accompanied by repression, alongside efforts to manipulate the people. We, the young communists, stand on the front line of this struggle, highlighting that the causes driving young people into the streets are common. They lie in the EU of monopolies and war preparations, which allocates billions to military armaments and to boosting the profits of business groups in their competition with rival centers, while treating the needs of the people and youth as ‘wasteful’ and a ‘cost’. They lie in the system of exploitation and class barriers, which sacrifices the needs of workers, young people and working-class families every day in the interests of a handful of capitalists."
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/13-european-communist-youth-organizations-hail-student-protests-back-international-dockworkers-strike.html DSA Is Eyeing a 2028 AOC Presidential Run The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is entering a new phase. After decades on the political margins, DSA has helped elect a socialist mayor of New York City, won a string of congressional primaries, and grown to over 130,000 members. Now, as chapters across the country call for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028, the organization faces a crucial test of how to turn its growing popularity into nationa
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Senate approves income-based payment plans for utility bills The Puerto Rico Senate has approved legislation that would establish income-based payment plans for residential customers struggling to pay overdue water and electricity bills, allowing eligible households to repay debt through monthly installments capped at no more than 5% of family income. The measure, House Bill 133, known as the Essential Services Continuity Payment Plans Act, is part of a broader package of legislation approved by the upper chamber addressing utility services, digital safety, agriculture, government spending and tax matters.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/senate-approves-income-based-payment-plans-for-utility-bills Hacktivist group says it obtained personal data on thousands of DHS employees A hacktivist group working to “limit further harm by the DHS” says it obtained data on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, including staffers’ phone numbers and email addresses. POLITICO could not independently verify the dataset’s authenticity. Reuters and TechCrunch matched information from the leak to third-party records and known names of DHS employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/28/dhs-data-leak-hacktivist-01140028 https://archive.ph/Exy9t Biden-era officials who quit over Gaza urge 2028 candidates to denounce policy architects Twelve former US officials who quit the Biden administration between late 2023 and mid-2024 over US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza signed a joint statement "We call on candidates for the 2028 Presidential Nomination to commit to not hire any administration official directly responsible for enabling Israel's military actions in Gaza," they said in the statement released on Wednesday.
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Flávio Bolsonaro calls himself the ‘leader of Brazil’ after fleeing to Miami After landing on a private jet with his family in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday morning, the far-right senator published the claim in a letter – even though his own party has recognised the legitimate victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as have all of Brazil’s institutions, and international observers who monitored and endorsed the vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/flavio-bolsonaro-miami-us-fleeing-brazilian-election-defeat IMF strikes preliminary Argentina deal as market return dims Still, a key ingredient to Argentina repaying its IMF programme in the long term is its return to international capital markets, which Milei has postponed in hopes of securing lower interest rates. Argentina’s sovereign bonds currently feature yields over 12 percent, which effectively close the window on a return in the near term.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/imf-strikes-preliminary-argentina-deal-as-market-return-dims.phtml https://archive.ph/wWT5Y Colombia’s opposition announces criminal charges against De la Espriella over ties to drug traffickers The president and his appointees are part of a revolving door system of people who, before being appointed to government positions, defended the interests of drug traffickers and paramilitaries associated with De la Espriella and his businesses, according to the opposition leader. For example, the president put Diana Patrica Bravo, a former prosecutor and partner at his law firm De la Espriella Lawyers, in charge of The Society of Special Assets (SAE), which controls assets that were seized from drug traffickers.
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Communism is potatoes? Capitalism is no potatoes! The most common slander thrown at communism, or the degenerated Soviet Union, are that there were perpetual famines. There is also the myth that Soviet citizens only ate potatoes, despite the CIA reporting the Soviet Union enjoyed a richer diet than the US in the 1970s. Yet capitalism in Europe is facing a potato shortage. A brutal heatwave over the summer wiped out 3 million tonnes of spuds worth £525 million as fields baked and stunted growth. This is in addition to the 3.6 million spuds that weren’t grown last year, making Europe dependant on imports for food, and harming agriculture industries in Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Germany.
https://communist.red/communism-is-potatoes-capitalism-is-no-potatoes/ Focus on the Real Drivers of the Affordability Crisis Over the past five years, the price of consumer goods has dominated American political discourse. From Donald Trump to Zohran Mamdani, winning candidates have used “affordability politics” to articulate popular dissatisfaction with economic conditions. From the price of eggs to gas to burritos, the terms of discussion in the media, the campaign trail, and the proverbial kitchen table have revolved around the cost-of-living crisis embodied in these consumer goods. Although figures on the Right and center of the political scene have used inflation and affordability politics to bolster their agendas, during the second Trump administration, it is the Left and center left that have principally benefited from the salience of price talk. Indeed, the Democrats’ 2026 midterm messaging strategy has centered on blaming Trump’s Republicans for the cost-of-living crisis that Trump himself successfully pinned on Joe Biden just two years ago. That aggressive focus on the cost of living and a promise of consumer affordability will likely continue to be a successful playbook for both left and right anti-incumbent campaigns in the coming years. But in order for a political movement to actually address the cost-of-living crisis once in office, it needs a clearer picture of where those costs are coming from and how they have changed over time. Our affordability politics must go beyond lowering the price of eggs. And trends in American household spending underscore perhaps t
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Top Rubio adviser for Venezuela and Cuba leaves State Dept. Lewin played crucial roles in shaping the administration's foreign policy, particularly in normalizing relations between the U.S. and Venezuela after the Jan. 3 ouster of Nicolas Maduro. Lewin first entered the federal government via Elon Musk's DOGE effort to cut government spending. He is getting married and has a job lined up in the private sector after he returns from his honeymoon.
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/27/rubio-adviser-state-department-venezuela-departs https://archive.ph/onnYl Trump administration asks Washington to set aside hundreds of ballots from suspected noncitizen voters The Trump administration on Monday asked Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it alleges are registered to vote without US citizenship, less than two weeks after making a similar demand in California. The announcement is the latest sign of the administration’s attempts to sow doubts about the election or its outcome in states with races that will help determine control of the US Senate and House.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/trump-washington-ballots-aside-noncitizen-voters Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison after women spoke of being drugged and raped by them Three once high-flying brothers convicted of exploiting their wealth and access to luxury real estate to drug and rape dozens of women were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni announced the punishment for Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander Brothers — after 11 accusers spoke in court.
https://apnews.com/article/alexander-brothers-sex-trafficking-sentencing-7bb4833c8b049f8f35228c30ba605452 Minimum Wage Freeze Hits NYC Workers Amid Rising Inflation The quirk
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Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the United States, according to multiple media reports A spokesperson for Bolsonaro did not respond to a request for comment. Bolsonaro’s brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas, had publicly encouraged him to leave Brazil if he lost the election. Bolsonaro has touted his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and visited the White House in May. The family connections go deeper: His brother Eduardo Bolsonaro was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration and sentenced to four years in prison. A warrant was recently issued for his arrest.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-flavio-bolsonaro-passport-lula-1f64bda20de066eeea04349e0319820a Venezuelan: Acting Rodríguez Gov’t Advances Fiscal, Labor Reforms “We seek to lower the barriers to formalization across all sectors, particularly for the smallest businesses, entrepreneurs, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),” he stressed. Rodríguez also announced a review of the registry of Special Taxpayers, known as “special contributors,” with the list reduced from 132,000 to around 44,000. These are individuals or legal entities that, because of their high income or assets, are subject to additional tax obligations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-acting-rodriguez-govt-advances-fiscal-labor-reforms/ Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have deployed to Haiti, source says It remains unclear who will command the new Salvadoran contingent, and how long they will operate in the Caribbean country. The government, which has gone without elected leaders for years, has struggled to rally foreign support to fight armed gangs that have taken control of much of the capital and surrounding regions, triggering violence that has displaced nearly 1.5 million people.
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CP of Greece, The way out for the Greek and all other peoples lies in overthrowing the exploitative system On Friday 23 October Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, visited the islands of Kastellorizo and Rhodes. In Kastellorizo, he visited the Island Defense Command of Megisti, where he met with the officers and staff. He also visited the island’s primary school and medical centre, and met with the mayor. In the afternoon, speaking at a KKE rally in Rhodes, he highlighted the dangerous developments in Greek-Turkish relations and the rivalries among the bourgeois classes and imperialist powers in the Eastern Mediterranean. He stated that the KKE opposes “the policy that transforms Greece into an energy and transportation hub and serves the interests of large monopolistic business groups, a policy that has nothing to do with the interests of the Greek people.” He reiterated the KKE’s position on defending the country’s borders and sovereign rights, opposing any change to the borders and the treaties that define them, while also emphasizing the need to foster friendship and solidarity between the peoples of Greece and Turkey.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-The-way-out-for-the-Greek-and-all-other-peoples-lies-in-overthrowing-the-exploitative-system/ Serbia's Election: Student-led opposition triumphs, but communist alternative remains absent According to preliminary results released by Serbia's Electoral Commission, the Student List secured 52.54% of the vote, compared with 39.29% for the Vučić-backed United Serbia coalition. The result followed widespread demonstrations against corruption and government policies, sparked by the deadly railway station canopy collapse in Novi Sad in November 2024. Serbia's communist organizations approached the elections from different positions. The Communists of Serbia highlighted the student movement under the slogan “Students Win,” while the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) participated through the electoral list of the Russian Party, promoting cooperation with Russia and BRICS and opposition to NATO and the European Union. Neither organization, however, entered the electoral contest as an indepen
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Judge rejects AG’s bid to permanently end case against ex-Capitol Police officer September’s manslaughter trial against Rhinewalt and the other former officer who admitted to shooting at Lewis in self defense, Steven Frederick Jr., marked the first criminal trial from Capitol Police’s record year of shootings in 2022. After the trial ended in an acquittal for Frederick and a hung jury for Rhinewalt, Peterson said she could hold another trial as soon as February.
https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-trial-black-motorist-mississippi-2b65ae6cab31a4c71ad8bbf6fa4f2bd7 Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of a statistics project at Anthropic, which is preparing for a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) flotation.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/26/anthropics-claude-ai-model-accessed-georgia-voter-data-in-us Cuts to rural healthcare become key issue for upstate votes in race for NY governor The latest flashpoint is in the Hudson Valley, where the Albany Med Health system has filed a plan to curtail services at Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson. Critics say patients in Columbia and Greene counties will now need to drive about an hour north to Albany to receive services that were once in their backyard.
https://gothamist.com/news/cuts-to-rural-healthcare-become-key-issue-for-upstate-votes-in-race-for-ny-governor Raman calls herself a capitalist and democratic socialist in interview, days before Election Day “I want the city to work and when the government is doing its job it needs to work really effectively, and we need to make sure capitalism works without harm to workers, without worker exploitation, without exploitation of poor p
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Student-led Serbian movement ousts right-wing leader Aleksandar Vucic in seismic win Mr Vucic told supporters at his party’s election night event in Belgrade: “It is now clear that we have lost and the Students’ List has won,” though he blamed the media, alleged interference by unnamed European countries and the “American deep state” for the loss. Radomir Saicic, a Students’ List candidate, said “tonight is not just about results. “It is about people who believed and continued to fight,” he said. “This is a victory over fear. It is nobody’s trophy, it is a citizen’s victory. But victory carries responsibility.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/student-led-serbian-movement-ousts-right-wing-leader-aleksandar-vucic-seismic-win Berlin’s Plan to Take Back Homes Will Cost Europe’s Biggest Landlord £7bn Die Linke, which won Berlin’s state elections in September, has agreed to talks with the city’s Greens and Social Democrats as part of plans to transfer ownership of flats from companies that own more than 10,000 apartments, with the legislation scheduled to be brought forward in 2028. Any apartments owned above that 10,000 threshold would have to be transferred into public ownership as part of the policy, with Die Linke proposing an average compensation of around €100,000 per apartment – around 40% below the market value.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/23/berlins-plan-to-take-back-homes-will-cost-europes-biggest-landlord-7bn/ ‘Still Just a Child’: The Russian Teenagers Fighting and Dying in Ukraine The pro-war Orthodox Christian VKontakte group Synodik, which has about 50,000 followers, carries dozens of obituaries for soldiers who were teenagers when the invasion began. In Orthodox Christianity, a synodik is a list of names of the living or the dead who are remembered in prayers and church services. Likewise, Synodik’s members pray for Russian soldiers like they would in a real church. The comments, mostly posted by women, are filled with Orthodox prayers, animated images of icons and cross emojis.
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The French people are taking to the streets — But where is a Communist Party to lead them? By Nikos Mottas Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism France is once again a country of protests, strikes and growing popular anger. Young people are mobilizing against deteriorating schools and an increasingly uncertain future, while workers confront austerity, rising living costs and attacks on public services. The French state finds enormous resources for military expenditure, yet workers and their families are told that sacrifices are unavoidable. There is no shortage of people willing to fight. What is missing, however, is a powerful revolutionary Communist Party, rooted in the working class and guided by Marxism-Leninism, capable of giving these struggles a clear socialist direction. This absence is particularly striking in France. The country of the Paris Commune, the great workers' strikes and May 1968 possesses one of Europe's richest revolutionary traditions. For decades, the French Communist Party (PCF) was a formidable political force, with deep roots in factories, trade unions and working-class neighborhoods. How did a party with such a history end up abandoning the revolutionary principles that once distinguished it from social democracy?
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/the-french-people-are-taking-to-streets-but-where-is-a-communist-party-to-lead-them.html France, Spain, Belgium, Albania, Brazil, Serbia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh… Reports show activism of many minds, addressing many topics and reaching considerable scale erupting in many places. Education, housing, corruption, jobs, prices, immigration, regimentation, fascism, war, data centers, weather, electoral campaigns, and more. France, Spain, Belgium, Albania, Brazil, Serbia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and more. What to do? On the one hand, where you are, if it arrives, participate. If it hasn’t yet arrived, try to initiate it. So far, so obvious. But a larger, overarching possibility beckons. Spread the eruption. Enlarge each outbreak. Make it all last. Still obvious. But how? What can turn a temporary eruption that may or may not win some specific immediately focused local aims into a sustained wave of activism that grows, persists a
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Spanish left-wing leader accuses Trump of denying her travel visa to Puerto Rico “Trump defends a curious concept of freedom,” she wrote on Telegram. “The same man who decides the fate of Puerto Rico’s citizens without respecting their sovereignty also bars those of us who risked our lives in the flotilla from traveling,” referring to her participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla that attempted to reach Gaza in late 2025.
https://www.politico.eu/article/spanish-left-wing-leader-colau-accuses-trump-denying-travel-visa-puerto-rico/ https://archive.ph/WaGly Community pharmacies warn of potential closures due to electricity price hikes “Community pharmacies cannot pass on increased energy costs to patients, as these expenses cannot be added to the price patients pay for medications – prices that are already negotiated by Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) or, in the case of government-sponsored coverage, the ‘Plan Vital’ program,” said Isaías Serrano, president of the AFCPR board of directors, in a written statement.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/community-pharmacies-warn-of-potential-closures-due-to-electricity-price-hikes Rubio tells Cubans ‘now is the time’ to act to see political change Havana on Friday mocked the “desperation” of the US following the comments made by Rubio and Trump. “Now the United States is resorting to public recruitment for the CIA,” Cuban deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio wrote on X. “There must be a great deal of desperation or misery within the agency for it to be forced to sell its services like a tube of toothpaste.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/marco-rubio-cuba-trump Georgia man charged with throwing Molotov cocktail at Atlanta ICE building Security cameras allegedly caught Hinton igniting an item and then throwi
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Argentinian judge drops fraud investigation into Milei over crypto scandal “The reported events do not constitute a criminal offence,” the judge said in a ruling. He also wrote that investor losses and the rise and fall in the currency’s price were insufficient to establish fraud. In his ruling, Martinez de Giorgi said that Milei’s institutional standing could have given the launch “greater impact” when he posted about it, but that does not translate into a fraudulent scheme.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/24/argentinian-judge-drops-fraud-investigation-into-milei-over-crypto-scandal https://archive.ph/A1DLu Bolivia Prison Project: Santa Cruz Plans Alarming Bukele-Style Jail 2026 Velasco said his administration is seeking international financing to build the prison, which would be named “La Tumba”—The Tomb. The facility would be located in an isolated area of the Chaco cruceño, far from major urban centers, to ensure a strict confinement regime. According to the governor, the prison would operate with permanent surveillance and severely restricted communication with the outside world. Inmates would be allowed to contact relatives only through authorized video calls.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-prison-project/ More than one million Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff On Saturday, under a fierce sun, red-clad crowds packed the 2.5-mile Copacabana beach in an attempt to help Lula clinch a dramatic and unprecedented comeback. Never since the return of democracy to Brazil in the 1980s has the first-round loser managed to bounce back. Josias Silva, a 61-year-old truck driver, voiced confidence that his 80-year-old president, who was first elected in 2002, would win a fourth non-consecutive term. He carried a homemade sign to the carnival-like procession reading: “Lula re-elected. Tomorrow will be a new day.”
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Another East Jerusalem neighbourhood is demolished as the world fails to act Down a track and past a pile of debris, 20 or so well-dressed people are waiting, all diplomats. I am joining them on a trip around al-Bustan, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem that has been scheduled for demolition. Many homes have been destroyed already. Bustan (“the Orchard”) is to be turned into a car park and recreation ground for settlers - but not for Palestinian residents, who will by then be absent. We stumble past the ruins of what used to be a house. In the garden is a caravan, where we are met by the owner, Fakhri Abu Diab. His wife Ameena, mother of their five children, stands nearby. “They arrived at three in the morning, armed soldiers with black masks putting a gun to my head,” Fakhri recalls of a recent visit. “They took me to interrogation.” On another occasion, they broke Ameena’s glasses. Terrified, she “clenched her jaw so hard that she broke her teeth”. The diplomats shuffle their feet. Fakhri and Ameena, now in their sixties, have lived in Bustan all their lives. Fakhri is chairman of the local residents’ committee, but he won’t be a resident much longer. Their temporary home is scheduled for demolition within 21 days of 4 October, when a new demolition order was pasted on his gate. They don’t know where to go next. “Whenever I hear bulldozers or any machinery, my automatic reaction is that they are coming for us,” Fakhri tells Middle East Eye.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/we-have-lost-hope-world-looks-away-palestines-history-crushed Czech Republic: Leading KSČM members condemn Konečná's alignment with the far right Kateřina Konečná's decision to join the far-right, xenophobic and anti-communist Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament has triggered fierce criticism within the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM). Leading party cadres, including Vice-Chairman Milan Krajča and Petra Prokšanová, have publicly condemned the move, describing it as a fundamental political error and distancing themselves from the former party chairwoman's decision. In a statement published on Thursday, October 22, Krajča stressed that Patriots for Europe brings together right-wing, anti-communist politicia
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Jayapal, Sanders Question Zuckerberg Over Alleged Meta Interference in Brazilian Election Leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is facing far-right Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Sunday’s election. Lula has asked the Superior Electoral Court to probe his challenger over “improper use” of a social network and disqualify him, and Bolsonaro—an ally of US President Donald Trump—has similarly sought Lula’s disqualification.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brazil-election Trump administration abandons appeals in fight over student loan forgiveness program The Education Department wanted to place limits on who could qualify for PSLF, which gives student loan forgiveness to people in government and nonprofit jobs after 10 years of payments. It had sought to bar people at nonprofits who worked on immigration rights and other left-leaning issues, but the move was blocked by a judge over the summer. The Justice Department originally appealed the judge’s decision but on Wednesday agreed to drop the case with little explanation.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/6164998-public-service-loan-forgiveness-student-debt-relief-pslf/ https://archive.ph/GfuPH Employers Shift Rising Health Care Costs Onto Millions of Workers Many people are also paying thousands of dollars in medical expenses when they get sick, because companies have increased the plans’ deductibles to offset increases in premiums. The yearly price, on average, for employees to cover their family is now $7,471 a year, up 9 percent from 2025. The total cost for a family plan, including the amount the employer contributes to the annual premiums, has reached $28,303.
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France to deploy 70,000 police ahead of new protests President Emmanuel Macron, who according to aides is postponing a visit later this month to Nigeria and Senegal amid the crisis, held a meeting of his defence council of top ministers and officials and was to meet security forces. He also hosted for the first time representatives of high school pupils, whose protests over conditions at their schools sparked the movement that has broadened into a nationwide show of anger against the government at the rising cost of living.
https://www.newarab.com/news/france-deploy-70000-police-ahead-new-protests German youth plan France-style mass protests Gen Z regelt's website clearly states that the initiative is "against all violence," whether directed at people or property. Police say they are "vigilant and relaxed," adding that they intend to protect people's right to congregate and express their opinions. Still, images of massive damage and public violence from France, Italy and Spain have raised concerns among domestic policymakers and police, who have warned against allowing the protests to be hijacked by left-wing extremists.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-youth-plan-france-style-mass-protests/a-79727133 Massive student-led rally marches in Belgrade ahead of Serbian election The Student List, a leaderless movement of student-backed candidates, wants to end more than 14 years of rule by Vucic’s rightwing populist Serbian Progressive party (SNS) in Sunday’s vote. Civil society groups have said the campaign has been marred by intimidation, arrests and misuse of public resources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/serbia-election-student-list-rally-belgrade-aleksandar-vucic Protests spread across Syria amid surge in Israeli incursions in the south Participants voiced support for Syria’s territorial unity and called for an end to Israeli incursions and violations against civilians. They also urged th
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(Rev Left Radio)The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West Breht is joined by A.J.A. Woods, author of The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. In this conversation, they explore the genealogy of the “Cultural Marxism” myth, the reactionary forces that shaped it, and the way it continues to animate right-wing attacks on liberation movements, critical thought, and social progress. Moving from the upheavals of the long 1960s through Lyndon LaRouche, the New Right, the Tea Party, and today’s panics over “wokeness,” CRT, and gender, Woods shows how “Cultural Marxism” functions less as a coherent theory than as a flexible ideological weapon: one that explains away popular struggles for equality and emancipation as elite manipulation, cultural subversion, and civilizational decay. The result is a rich historical and political analysis of one of the contemporary right’s most influential myths, and of the broader culture-war terrain on which reaction, neoliberalism, and authoritarianism increasingly converge.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/the-cultural-marxism-conspiracy-why-the-right-blames-the-frankfurt-school-for-the-decline-of-the-west Youth in Revolt: A Roundup of Protests in Europe and Around the World Faced with austerity measures, the dismantling of public education, precarious living conditions, authoritarianism, and — particularly in Europe —opposition to rapid military rearmament, young people are rising up in different parts of the world, rejecting the idea that they should accept deteriorating living conditions at home while being rallied behind their governments’ political and military agendas. The determination young people have shown in the streets could inspire workers to join the struggle, and their unity could carry the movement into workplaces, where strikes and other forms of collective action could deepen the confrontation with the government. France, is currently the epicenter of class struggle, after massive and intense clashes that made worldwide headlines in recent days. The situation is intensifying, with the Macron regime stepping up repressio
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US congressional candidate Brad Lander freed after West Bank detention United States Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander says he has been released from Israeli military custody with a warning after being detained alongside dozens of volunteers helping Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/us-congressional-candidate-brad-lander-freed-after-west-bank-detention https://archive.ph/QYtpi US Park Police spend $343,000 on mobile surveillance cameras in Washington DC The US Park Police are spending $343,000 to lease mobile surveillance cameras from a company that also supplies Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), federal contract records show. The deal comes as Donald Trump has insisted that vandals damaged the reflecting pool, one of Washington’s best-known landmarks – charges that have since been dismissed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/park-police-surveillance-cameras-washington-dc Taxpayers are funding private school tuition. It's helping classical Christian schools expand This summer, Texas began rolling out $1 billion in public funding that eligible families can put toward private education expenses. Republican-controlled state legislatures around the country have approved a cascade of similar programs in the past six years, alarming public school advocates. These programs mean half of school-age children in the United States are now eligible to apply for state money to attend private schools. In the U.S., most private schools are religious. Securing public money for them raises issues over church-state separation but fulfills a longstanding goal for Christian conservatives, who lobbied for this funding.
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Indian court orders release of two leaders of Cockroach movement The two leaders of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, had spent a week in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi police last week. On Wednesday, a special magistrate ordered that Das and Ranka be released, despite efforts by police to keep them in prison. They were made to sign a bond pledging no further breach of peace.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/india-cockroach-movement-leaders-released-protests-government-crackdown RMCH interns go on indefinite work stoppage A man, who allegedly attempted suicide by consuming pesticide in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, is now in stable condition, according to police. Abul Hasan Mia, who claimed that power, energy and mineral resources minister autism scorebal Hassan Mahmood owed him money, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he took pesticide at about 3:30pm on Tuesday.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/318981/rmch-interns-go-on-indefinite-work-stoppage Tunisia jails opposition politician for four years over social media posts Intern doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital began an indefinite work stoppage on Wednesday, demanding adequate medicines, medical supplies and security at the government hospital. The 252 interns, under the banner of the Intern Doctors Society, stopped work at 8:00am, saying they faced threats and occasional attacks when asking patients’ relatives to buy essential items, including cannulas, saline and syringes, from outside.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/tunisia-jails-opposition-politician-for-four-years-over-social-media-posts https://archive.ph/ZlVZr Khartoum airport under drone fire as safety concerns mount F
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How The Proud Boys Lost Their Name West Palm Beach, FL – On Sept. 26, the film “American Martyrs” premiered at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion in West Palm Beach, Florida. The subject of the film, presented by the far-right media outlet Gateway Pundit, was the Proud Boys – specifically the “seditious five,” whom a federal jury found guilty of seditious conspiracy to stop the presidential transfer of power for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. …. Despite the obvious connections to the Proud Boys organization, the premiere lacked any of the recognizable branding belonging to what it depicted as a persecuted “drinking fraternity.” Even on Tarrio’s person, the golden cock and abbreviated name have given way to the branding for his streaming outfit, “War Boys,” which has gained a whopping 700 followers on Rumble since the channel was created in April last year. And on Tarrio’s merch website – where the Afro-Cuban now in his 40s markets just about any idea as apparel, including a t-shirt reading “Enrique Tarrio Eats Cream Pies” with an AI illustration of Tarrio licking an over-sized cream pie – reveals a distinct absence of Proud Boys related merchandise. Tarrio’s ability to capitalize on Proud Boys merchandising, which once characterized his merch store, hit a setback last year when a D.C. Superior Court judge awarded the brand to a historically-Black church following a years-long legal battle set in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election. At the beginning of 2025, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (MAME) church was the only place one could purchase official Proud Boys merchandise, re-branded to signify Black pride, with proceeds going toward the church’s community justice fund.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/how-the-proud-boys-lost-their-name/ Puerto Rican Communities Bear the Brunt of the Water Crisis As a child, visits to my grandmother’s home in the rural area between the municipalities of Humacao and Yabucoa, in eastern Puerto Rico, often began with the same question: “Is there running water?” Decades later, we have stopped asking—not because the problem has been solved, but because we already know the answer. She either has no running water at all or lives with such low water pressure that access remains uncertain.
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Activist Mahmoud Khalil asks Supreme Court to let US judges quickly reverse immigration detentions Khalil, a lawful permanent U.S. resident, was detained by immigration authorities last year because of his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in the spring of 2024. The U.S. government argued at the time that Khalil’s presence in the U.S. was harmful to the country’s foreign policy interests.
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-supreme-court-palestinian-protests-columbia-8ac4b21f75a38a0165c92ee1a14f093e US judge dismisses Sam Altman's sister's sexual abuse lawsuit Laura Politi, a lawyer for Annie Altman, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Santos Perez, a lawyer who previously represented Annie Altman in the case but withdrew this month, said in a statement, "I am no longer authorized to comment on this case but I continue to believe in Annie." Lawyers for Sam Altman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-dismisses-sam-altmans-sisters-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-2026-10-20/ Ohio Democrat’s family criticizes Vivek Ramaswamy for bringing up estranged mother in gubernatorial ad In a Tuesday statement, Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, said his sister is estranged from her mother, who had married a man that sexually abused Acton when she was 12 years old. He added that Arthur remained in the marriage even after her husband was arrested and her children were taken away from her.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/ohio-democrat-vivek-ramaswamy-ad Mayor Bass announces temporary relief for Los Angeles residents affected by skyrocketing utility bills Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a statement Tuesday announcing plans for some major changes to bring temporary relief for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers affected by skyrocket
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Hundreds of Moroccan personnel trained for Gaza force deployment While Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo have also agreed to contribute troops, Morocco is expected to be the first to put boots on the ground, officials familiar with the Board of Peace's plans told TOI in July. In comments to the Israeli outlet on Monday, the Board of Peace official said the training of up to 500 personnel began in Morocco around late August. It involved an initial group of officers and instructors, followed by the broader contingent.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hundreds-moroccan-personnel-trained-gaza-force-deployment Israel's Ben-Gvir poised for election gains as young voters turn to far right "I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," said Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old student and first-time voter from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem. Marmon points to Ben-Gvir's sponsoring of a law passed in March that makes hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of attacks on Israelis, which Ben-Gvir celebrated with the noose cake and a noose lapel pin. The bill is likely to be struck down by the Israeli courts, in part because it would not apply the same punishment to Jews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-ben-gvir-poised-election-gains-young-voters-turn-far-right-2026-10-20/ UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks RAF Typhoon fighters are to be used in efforts to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying protective missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure as western allies increase their intervention in the escalating conflict. The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.
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Communist Party of Albania backs student protests against Rama, denounces police repression The Communist Party of Albania (PKSH) has expressed its full support for the ongoing student protests against the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, condemning police repression and calling on workers and the broader population to stand alongside the protesting youth. In a statement published by party chairman Qemal Cicollari, the PKSH described the students' demands as entirely just and legitimate, denouncing high education fees, deteriorating living conditions and the hardships faced by young people under capitalism.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/communist-party-of-albania-backs-student-protests-against-rama-denounces-police-repression.html Inflation Watch: How Does In-Store Price Manipulation Bias Our Inflation Data? The Guardian has had a series of pieces in the last year looking at ways that stores and landlords rip off customers and tenants. In the case of stores, one piece found evidence that convenience stores charge prices at the checkout counter that are higher than the price listed on the shelf. A prior piece reported that Dollar stores also frequently charge people more than the shelf price. Another one reported on fees and fines that landlords often impose on top of rent. In addition to these practices being unethical, and likely illegal, they also raise the question of whether they may lead to an understatement of inflation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other measures of inflation. The problem from the standpoint of the CPI is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) price checkers would be recording the prices listed on the shelves. If the price people get charged when they pay at the checkout counter is higher than the shelf price, then the data they collect would be understating the true price of the product. There is a similar story with rental fees. If landlords start to tack on fees for items that would ordinarily be covered by rent (e.g. garbage collection or normal maintenance) and these fees are not accurately reported to the BLS survey person, then the data would be understating the true rent that people are paying. Whether these practices affect the CPI in an importa
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Florida files arrest warrant for Raúl Castro, 30 years after Brothers to the Rescue shootdown Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that the state has secured an arrest warrant for former Cuban leader Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown — nearly 30 years after four men were killed.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2026/10/19/florida-ag-to-hold-news-conference-at-fiu/ Orange County teamsters strike affects landfills, public works services “Our strike has impacted so much, and we only did it because we were forced to do it,” said Eric Jimenez, Secretary-Treasurer and Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 952, on day 2 of the strike. “What has it impacted? The animal shelters, the roads, the waterways, the landfills. All of that is being impacted for one reason and one reason only. Because the county officials have chosen to wage war against you and the workers of Orange County. They can do the right thing by coming back to us and giving us a fair offer that will put you back to work.”
https://ktla.com/news/orange-county/orange-county-workers-strike-picket-lines/ Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen in California sweep targeting alleged noncitizen voters Federal officials on Monday blamed California officials for the alleged crimes, accusing them of facilitating noncitizen voting through inadequate voter roll maintenance and hiding it from the public. The charges escalated a simmering voter roll fight that came into focus last week when the Justice Department sued California and warned that local election workers who knowingly process or tabulate ballots submitted by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation and potential prosecution.
https://apnews.com/article/california-election-justice-department-60e3dd468f43e0e8a32e6bf69341f189 Massachusetts lieutenant governor candidate ends campaign after arrest The move ca
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Serbian rector’s phone was infected with spyware during student protests, group says The Balkan country is holding a tense election this weekend that is seen as a showdown between the protesting student movement and Vucic, who is seeking to extend his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year rule. In September, digital rights groups reported that at least 14 activists and students had their phones hacked and infected with spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-spyware-election-vucic-pegasus-students-a0c86f8d3776246f1065120a6057e064 Amazon ‘Uses AI in Warehouses to Predict Whether Workers Will Join Unions’ The online retail giant uses a tool called Atlas in an apparent bid to predict acts of dissent by workers in the UK, the US and Canada, a document released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor show. The document, which appears to be a training manual for company leaders, has led the GMB Union to accuse Amazon of using “Orwellian” AI tools to spy on workers. “Workers deserve to be able to work free of the fear of excessive surveillance,” said GMB organiser Rachel Fagan.“If Amazon bosses are using Atlas or similar AI-fuelled systems in the UK, the British public deserve to know”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/amazon-uses-ai-in-warehouses-to-predict-whether-workers-will-join-unions/ French government calls for localised curfew to curb rioting and looting He said details of curfewed areas would be provided later in the day. The instructions come as Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered his resignation on Sunday but President Emmanuel Macron asked him to stay on to respond to police needs in an emergency situation.
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CP of Greece, One hundred ports - one message On 30 October, one hundred ports across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas are expected to come to a standstill during a coordinated strike, sending the hopeful message that “workers have the power”! This is a major internationalist initiative that takes the torch from the previous International Day of Action on 6 February, when dockworkers protested: “We do not work for war! Ports for the people and for peace - not bases for imperialists.” In Greece, alongside the dockworkers at Piers II and III in Piraeus, seamen and workers in the ship repair Zone, at other shipyards, and at metal factories have decided to join the strike. Initiatives will unfold on the same day in even more sectors and workplaces in both the private and public sectors. This struggle wil be uniting:
those who operate the gantry cranes. Who load millions of metric tons of goods, and now business groups are demanding that they “load” raw materials, weapons, and ammunition for the war; the seamen, who set ships in motion all over the world, and today shipowners are sending them to war zones for their own profit, forcing them to sign documents stating that they are putting their lives at risk at their own responsibility; workers who build ships and set the machinery of the metal industry in action. With the shift to a war economy, they are witnessing employers seizing yet another opportunity to demand that workers work without complaint, intensifying exploitation for war purposes. … https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-One-hundred-ports-one-message/ Brazil – AND Editorial: Fight the Far Right and Yankee Interference with Action! Regardless of the outcome of the October 25 election, the country finds itself in a critical situation where its national sovereignty (what remains of it), and the meager democratic rights and fundamental freedoms, hard-won through numerous struggles of the Brazilian people over decades, are threatened. There are two fundamental reasons for this. First: because the country is facing increasing intervention by Yankee imperialism, as outlined in its New National Security Strategy of November 2025, including in this round of g
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Arizona joins Nevada to fight proposed cuts to their shares of Colorado River The move comes after the interior department announced restrictions this summer that could slash the water supplied to lower basin states – Arizona, California and Nevada – over the next two years depending on the river’s condition. The river’s major reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have plummeted to historically low levels, due to overuse and a changing climate.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/17/arizona-nevada-water-rights-colorado-river US appeals court blocks class actions over Tesla's self-driving claims In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said there were too many individualized questions about what buyers actually saw before making a purchase, and so they could not sustain their lawsuit as a class action. The appeals court decision is a win for now for Tesla, which had urged the appeals court to vacate orders by a California judge last year certifying three sets of classes. The ruling means the thousands of California buyers the lower court had grouped together cannot, for now, pursue their claims jointly in a single case.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-appeals-court-blocks-class-actions-over-teslas-self-driving-claims-2026-10-16/ California officials who process ballots from suspected noncitizens risk prosecution, US warns The Trump administration is escalating its fight with California ahead of next month’s midterm election, warning that local officials who process and tabulate ballots submitted by suspected noncitizen voters are putting themselves at risk of criminal investigation and potential prosecution.
https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-c42a8b3497a9529d923274f70cdcbcbb US voters want more action on global heating. Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 10/17/26 News Anon 3.0 18-10-26 01:19:00 No. 2934261 [Reply]
More than 400 arrested as police clash with protesters across France Police fired teargas in confrontations with protesters, as demonstrations across France were boosted by other groups angry over high prices and the fraying of a social welfare system. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and tensions erupted on the fringes of the nationwide demonstrations over absent teachers, decrepit school buildings and police violence. Late on Saturday, the interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said there had been 400 arrests and most were adults who were not part of the high school protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/17/protests-france-high-prices-social-security-gilets-jaunes Russian firm launches ‘world’s first’ crypto-to-bank payment service According to the company, payments are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan and UAE dirhams and carry a commission of 0.3%. Transfers can take as little as one business day. “The key demand among market participants today is the ability to transfer money around the world in just a few clicks, as quickly as possible,” said Pyotr Fradkov, chairman of Russian bank Promsvyazbank, which established A7. Customers can access the service online after verifying their identity and submitting an invoice. It is available in countries where cryptocurrency transactions are permitted under local law.
https://rt-english.com/russia/647157-russia-global-payments-service/ https://archive.ph/fOlUe Councils Face Upheaval After Labour Threat to End Coalitions With Greens Labour’s threat to end local power-sharing agreements with the Greens in response to its ‘Zionism is racism’ motion could lead to disruption at councils across England and Wales. Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s chair, said on Thursday that Greens working in coalition with the party in local councils must “make clear that they reject” the motion. Otherwise, she said, “Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end”.
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Erik Houdini: Why Do Some Americans Live in Motels? Why do some Americans live in hotels, motels, inns, lodges, and whatever other word we want to use? We know what we're talking about. We're talking about housing that is supposed to be temporary, typically for a night, a weekend, maybe a week. But more and more Americans find themselves living in hotels. Let's put those numbers in perspective. Statistics show that in America about 700,000 people experience homelessness, and most of those people are living in hotels. But the actual hard number of people who are experiencing this is surprisingly difficult to track down, and I wouldn't hesitate to say that the statistics surrounding things like unemployment and homelessness and poverty in this country are cooked. Just the way that things are reported, and the way things are self-reported, the way these statistics are gathered, it would be very difficult to put a real number on the amount of people who are experiencing hotel poverty, hotel homelessness. Would they even be considered homeless? Some statistics point towards yes, some point towards no. And that's intentional. It would be a shame if the emperor was revealed to be wearing no clothes. So let's put the numbers in perspective based on real-world experience
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-10-11-why-do-americans-live-in-hotels The rise of the far right in Europe: Capitalism's useful ally and the tasks of communists: Nikos Mottas Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism The growing influence of nationalist and far-right forces across Europe is neither accidental nor a development occurring outside the capitalist system. It is closely connected with the needs of capitalist power itself, at a time when imperialist rivalries are intensifying, preparations for war are accelerating and the established bourgeois parties are finding it increasingly difficult to secure popular consent for their policies. The rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), France's National Rally and Britain's Reform UK, alongside the experience of Giorgia Meloni's government in Italy, points to significant changes in Europe's political landscape. Far from representing a genuine challenge to capitalist domination, these forces offer additional political options to s
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Brush fires trigger evacuations in Los Angeles, Orange counties amid Santa Ana winds across SoCal Strong Santa Ana winds are whipping across Southern California as the dangerous conditions spark fires across the region and leave tens of thousands without power. Firefighters are battling blazes in San Clemente, Malibu and Azusa. While forward progress has stopped with the Peak Fire in Azusa, the Norte Fire in Orange County and the Bryson Fire in Malibu has forced evacuations.
https://abc7.com/live-updates/southern-california-fire-watch-red-flag-high-wind-warnings-effect/19941220/ Case against Leon Black dismissed after plaintiff said she was ‘medically incapable of continuing’ A federal judge has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Leon Black after the plaintiff in the case, who had accused the private equity billionaire of rape, said she was “medically incapable of continuing” and at risk of “acute psychiatric crisis”, including suicide. The woman known only as “Jane Doe”, who claimed in a lawsuit that was first filed in July 2023 that she had been “handed off” to Black by his associate Jeffrey Epstein and then sexually assaulted by him, had been acting without a lawyer in the case. Doe has alleged that the assault occurred in 2002, when she was a teenager.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/16/leon-black-civil-rape-lawsuit-dismissed-epstein ICE pursuit in Houston that broke a man’s leg targeted a suspect who died years ago, family says After the episode Saturday, ICE said in a statement that officers had observed a suspect they were targeting, identified as Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, enter a vehicle with Parra Hernandez. But on Friday, Harris County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Rafael Lemaitre told The Associated Press that Mendoza-Cervantes was not in that vehicle. ICE did not respond to requests for comment Friday.
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Minawi urges restraint as fallout from deadly Sudan-Egypt border strikes widens Darfur governor Minni Minnawi has urged Sudanese and Egyptian authorities to establish the facts surrounding deadly strikes on artisanal gold miners near the Egyptian border, warning against collective blame as tensions rise between the two countries. Dozens of Sudanese miners were reportedly killed in airstrikes in North Wadi on Saturday. Minawi said most of the reported victims came from Darfur and called for an end to the demonisation of the joint forces, stressing that individual incidents must not fuel accusations against entire communities.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/minawi-urges-restraint-as-fallout-from-deadly-sudan-egypt-border-strikes-widens March and March-affiliated parolee detained after securing bail After being granted R1000 bail, Nsibande was intercepted immediately before he could leave the court. Nsibande was previously convicted for kidnapping and robbery in 2009. He was released on parole in April 2022 and was to remain under state supervision until 2034. The department’s spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo, explaining the processes of a parolee being re-arrested, says the parole board will have to decide on Nsibande’s fate.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/march-and-march-affiliated-parolee-detained-after-securing-bail/ Crowds throng New Delhi and wave Indian flags amid escalating protests Protests by the youth and opposition parties have intensified over an ongoing review of voter lists that has removed more than 130 million names since last year. Critics say the exercise is politically motivated, threatens to disenfranchise millions more, and has disproportionately affected minorities, particularly Muslims. They have demanded the resignation of election chief Gyanesh Kumar. The Election Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration deny the allegations and say the revision is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.
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Brazil's incoming right-wing Congress takes aim at judge who jailed Bolsonaro Driving the effort are allies of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro who dominated legislative elections this month and plan to take aim at Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice responsible for the ex-president's arrest and conviction on coup-plotting charges. That would represent a major escalation by the legislative branch in a years-long power struggle with an empowered Brazilian judiciary, reasserting the influence of Congress and potentially pushing the court to the right for years to come.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-incoming-right-wing-congress-takes-aim-judge-who-jailed-bolsonaro-2026-10-16/ Brazil’s Lula says he now backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 16 The U-turn, which Lula announced during a Thursday night interview with TV Globo, comes with the presidential runoff in just over a week. The incumbent faces an uphill battle to overturn the first-round victory of his opponent, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who remains slightly ahead at the polls.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/brazil-lula-age-criminal-responsibility De la Espriella announces “open, resolute, and patriotic struggle against wokeism” "Culture has an enormous capacity to shape society, and that is why the State has a moral, inescapable, and political duty to prevent cultural spaces from being taken over by social communism, which is atheist and an enemy to the fundamental values upon which the nation of Colombia is built. This is where that cultural counterrevolution will begin." said President Abelardo de la Espriella. De la Espriella said that Holguin, the daughter of a reported money launderer, would lead the “Culture War” against the “extreme left,” which has “permeated all parts of society, particularly the cultural and academic spheres.”
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CP of the Workers of Spain, Building Working-Class Opposition to Capital and Its Governments The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE), meeting at its Fifth Extraordinary Plenary Session, has analysed the political situation arising from the mobilisations for the right to housing, the calling of an early general election for 29 November, and the announcement of a general strike for 11 November. These events, which have unfolded over the course of just a few weeks, reflect the sharpening of social contradictions that directly affect the living conditions of the working class and pose new tasks for those of us who defend the need for a political alternative independent of the interests of capital. The mobilisations sparked by the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal have once again exposed the severity of the housing problem in our country. Rising rents, difficulties in accessing housing, the inability of large sections of working-class youth to establish independent households, and the insecurity faced by numerous families are all part of a reality that cannot be separated from the general deterioration of the living conditions of our class.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-the-Workers-of-Spain-Building-Working-Class-Opposition-to-Capital-and-Its-Governments/ France: 17 October – towards a revolutionary crisis? Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth mobilised across France for the latest in the recent wave of student-led protests sweeping the country. With 90 percent of French universities and hundreds of schools shut yesterday, it is clear that this youth-led movement has not been cowed or diminished in scale, despite brutal police repression. We publish below an article by Jérôme Métellus originally published in French at marxiste.org, which lays out the tasks ahead, if the successes of yesterday’s protests are to be turned into a struggle that can deal a killing blow to the hated Macron government.
https://marxist.com/france-17-october-towards-a-revolutionary-crisis.htm “If Bolsonaro wins, they kill us; Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News Anon 3.0 15-10-26 23:17:35 No. 2933005
Texas prosecutor considering felony charges for ICE agent who ran over man Sean Teare, district attorney for Harris county, said video of the incident in west Houston on Saturday morning, in which the officer’s unmarked SUV is seen veering into the man as he runs away across an empty parking lot, could support a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/texas-ice-agent-assault-charge Judge finds Elon Musk, Kristi Noem engaged in premeditated campaign to smear ex-FEMA official A federal judge on Tuesday found that billionaire Elon Musk and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as well as other senior Trump administration officials, engaged in a coordinated campaign to spread false information about a former FEMA official and impugn her integrity.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-kristi-noem-mary-comans-fema-official/ EPA rollbacks could shift pollution costs to NC families, report says The report, “North Carolina Left Exposed,” was released Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Network, an organization of former EPA officials. It warns that federal changes could shift more responsibility for preventing pollution and paying for its consequences to state agencies and families. The report brings together existing research and policy changes involving PFAS - or forever chemicals, coal ash, animal agriculture and pesticides. It does not provide a new statewide measurement of pollution increases or a total estimate of additional household costs.
https://www.wral.com/news/local/epa-rollbacks-nc-families-pollution-exposure-october-2026/ Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff’s office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation A small-business owner in Georgia has sued Flock and the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office over alleged retaliation using license plate cameras. “[The lawsuit] alleges illegal [license plate tracking] searches over many months without pro
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Israeli forces impose curfew on non-local workers in rural Al-Quneitrah Israeli forces have warned residents of Hodr village in Al-Quneitrah country that non-local workers will not be permitted to remain past 7:00 PM. Military checkpoints also issued direct warnings to non-local laborers, ordering them to leave the village before the daily deadline
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386593/ Israeli rights groups sound alarm over surge of mostly Palestinian inmates being shot by guards Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee Against Torture (PCATI) in Israel say they have documented 22 cases. One is Israeli; the rest are Palestinian. Nearly all of the shootings have occurred since last autumn, whereas only a handful of such incidents had been documented by these rights groups in the prior decade.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-rights-groups-sound-alarm-over-surge-mostly-palestinian-inmates-being-shot-guards Iraqi Kurds suggest peace process between Iran and Iranian Kurdish opposition It is not the first time that Iran has negotiated with the Iranian Kurds. On 13 July 1989, during negotiations between Iran and Iranian Kurds, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was assassinated in Vienna, while another former leader, Sadegh Sharafkandi in Berlin was assassinated on 17 September 1992. Also in 2011, the PKK-affiliated Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement after Iran agreed to stop executing Kurdish political prisoners if PJAK ceased its attacks. PJAK did not respond to a request by MEE for comment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-kurds-suggest-peace-process-between-iran-and-iranian-kurdish-opposition Albania’s prime minister vows not to resign over student-led protests The unrest – in contrast to the largely peaceful protests of recent months – marks the veteran leader’s
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Joe Biden’s Team Is Rewriting Its History on Gaza After three years of slaughter in Gaza, some leading officials of the Biden administration are trying to justify their record. Figures like Antony Blinken and Brett McGurk have been on media tours recently giving their version of the story. Meanwhile, Akbar Shahid Ahmed has been working to provide a serious account of what really happened. Akbar’s book Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza cuts through the spin and presents a damning picture of Joe Biden and his team. Akbar is the diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Sun. He previously covered foreign policy issues for the Huffington Post. This is an edited transcript from Jacobin’s Long Reads podcast. You can listen to the interview Here: (
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/long-reads-telling-the-truth-about-biden-and-gaza-w/id791564318?i=1000793892080 )
https://jacobin.com/2026/10/biden-israel-gaza-genocide-blinken-mcgurk The Astonishing Costs for US Working People of the Endless War on Cuba The Cuban revolution which began in 1952 triumphed against the U.S backed dictatorship in 1959. The current socialist state has evolved since that time with U.S. hostility and active warfare measures employed continuously for the past 67 years. The island nation has endured active military attacks and constant harassment of every kind with political, diplomatic, and economic war being waged for that entire time. Several thousand Cubans have been killed as a result of the U.S. war and sponsored terrorism. The conflict has been continuous although uneven. Since the election of Trump in 2016 and again in 2020 the U.S. war against Cuba has expanded to its most aggressive phase. Trump has deployed naval forces to surround the island, surveil it daily with air power, while CIA-led forces probe as they plan various infiltration operations. Cuba’s trade with other countries is routinely harassed and is sometimes intercepted and blocked as is the case now with almost all oil deliveries. The military and economic strangulation of Cuba’s economy and population has led to multiple collap
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Ilhan Omar’s phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal inquiry, source says The subpoenas were issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota as federal authorities investigate potential fraud in Omar’s immigration paperwork, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation. The investigation led to federal agents searching Omar’s Washington DC home on Monday just weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is seeking re-election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/ilhan-omar-phone-seized-relatives-subpoenaed US cuts Obamacare subsidies for 189,000 with duplicate coverage US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services identified enrollees in 2026 as holding subsidized coverage on the ACA federal marketplace, also known as Obamacare, while also enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program. It also identified deceased people still on the subsidy lists.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-government-cuts-subsidies-189000-obamacare-enrollees-2026-10-14/ House control all but gone, top Republicans privately concede Five senior Republican lawmakers, all granted anonymity to speak candidly about their party’s dire position, told POLITICO the House had all but slipped away. One senior House Republican said the GOP’s goal at this point was to “save as many Republican seats as we can.” The president, this person said, was not helping.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/14/house-republicans-private-lost-cause-01117673 https://archive.ph/eCveu Dozens of California dams need repair as El Niño winter draws closer Lawmakers gave the state the power to penalize dam owners that
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New York and New Jersey Activists Must Unite to Close ICE Detention Centers Communities in New York City and New Jersey are feeling an ICE surge. In New York, ICE’s shooting of Bronx community member and father, Oscar Belgal, generated national headlines and reminded many of the threat the agency poses to communities throughout the United States. In New Jersey, violent ICE abductions of our neighbors have become a regular occurrence. This reality is encompassed in a now viral video of ICE abducting a man in Harrison as his children cling to him and scream for help. Immigrant rights activists and community members are rightly touched by the horror of seeing this state violence play out in our specific communities, our specific neighborhoods, our specific states or cities or towns. This outrage, rooted in a sense of connection to the places we call home, is part of what fuels our sense of urgency and personal commitment to resist ICE and kick the agency out of our neighborhoods. But it can also limit how we take up that fight. The particularities of the surge in New York City and New Jersey offer an example of those limits, as well as an opportunity to rethink our approach to the fight against ICE. It is essential that we organize our opposition to ICE based on a deep understanding of how interconnected NYC and New Jersey communities are. This requires building an opposition that does not confine our activity to our specific states, cities, and townships, but unites across state lines to oust ICE’s entire apparatus of violence.
https://www.leftvoice.org/new-york-and-new-jersey-activists-must-unite-to-close-ice-detention-centers/ Democrats for Mike Rogers Coalition Is Powered by Right-Wingers In August, Michigan’s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Mike Rogers, stood at a podium in a Detroit front yard with a small group of political and religious leaders who identified themselves as Democrats. Abdul El-Sayed, Rogers’s Democratic opponent, was too extreme, they said, compelling them to take the unprecedented step of supporting a Republican. Rogers called them “courageous.” “I’m not asking you to be a Republican. I’m asking you for the opportunity to earn your trust,” Rogers reportedly said. “Michigan deserves a senator who will sit d
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Orange County workers strike, demand higher wages The union represents nearly 500 public employees at OC Public Works, OC Waste and Recycling, OC Community Resources, and other county operations that serve three million residents. Sam Carlin, Local 952 union representative, said bargaining with the county has been ongoing for months.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/orange-county-workers-strike-demand-higher-wages/ Jayapal Responds to Omar Raid With Reminder of $50,000 in Paper Bag for Trump Border Czar As part of a probe launched under the Biden administration, Homan was the target of a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation. In September 2024, he was recorded taking the bag of cash from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen interested in securing government contracts if Trump returned to the White House.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tom-homan-bribe Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent Elon Musk has become the biggest political donor of the 2026 US midterm elections cycle, funneling about $366m into political groups and campaigns as he backs conservative candidates and rightwing causes. The world’s richest person has poured more than $276m into politics since July alone, some of the most rapid political spending in US history. He’s targeting key races that will determine which party controls the US Senate.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/elon-musk-political-donor-midterm-elections AI data centers are coming for federal land. They’re roiling the Nevada governor’s race Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, one of his party’s most vulnerable incumbents, doesn’t outright oppose building data centers on public lands, as long as they have community support. He recently signed an agreement with Trump’s Republican administration to streamline infrastructure projects, which could include data centers on federal lands. Democratic nominee Aaron Ford, the state attorney
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South Africa deputy police chief resigns amid sex offence charges Shadrack Sibiya was set to face a disciplinary hearing on Monday, but his lawyers tendered his resignation at the start of proceedings. Sibiya is currently in prison after he was arrested for the alleged rape and grooming of a minor last month. His application to be released on bail has been postponed to October 13.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/south-africa-deputy-police-chief-resigns-amid-sex-offence-charges https://archive.ph/AN7jE Clashes between rival groups in central South Sudan leave scores dead Disputes over cattle and grazing land, along with revenge killings, have fueled repeated violence in Lakes state, but the immediate cause of Friday’s clashes was unclear. South Sudanese analyst Machot Amuom said unresolved tensions between the communities had left the area vulnerable to renewed violence.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-rumbek-clashes-deaths-hospital-violence-99941758a0c55a3fb5fa45bb90b0e03b Former Israeli intelligence chief detained after helping Palestinian olive harvesters Feldshuh, 77, had joined a group of retired senior security officials and activists helping Palestinians with the harvest. According to Commanders for Israel’s Security, the movement to which he belongs, settlers arrived and attacked Palestinian women, prompting members of the group to intervene. According to its mission statement, the movement aims to form "an agreement" with Palestinians based on the 1967 borders for a two-state solution.
https://www.newarab.com/news/former-israel-spy-chief-detained-aiding-palestinian-farmers Hunger strike in Lebanese prisons ends after settlement over amnesty bill reached The bill, which was passed by parliament in August, was suspended after a parliamentary bloc filed an
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France: “Generation 6-7 doing May ‘68 all over again” 6 October – the third act of the school students’ protests that have rocked France since the beginning of the school year – represented yet another escalation of the movement. The demonstrations were huge everywhere. According to the organisers, school and university student organisations, 100,000 marched in Paris alone, and a total of 450,000 marched across the country. The demonstrations were lively, extremely youthful, and mainly composed of high school students, who turned up in quick-moving columns from each school and neighbourhood, armed with hundreds of home-made cardboard placards. On 5 October, 2,000 high schools – over half the total – across the country were already blockaded. On 6 October, about 90 percent of the country’s universities also joined the movement, following mass general assemblies attended by hundreds, and even thousands, of students.
https://communist.red/france-generation-6-7-doing-may-68-all-over-again/ AutoZone Workers Won a Union. Then the Company Fired Them. Speaking with members of the newly formed AutoZone Workers Union, you would never guess that one of them had just been fired — and that another would be the next morning. That’s what happened to Nathan DuCongé and then David Valencia after they won their union election. On a Zoom call with Jacobin, though, their joy was contagious. DuCongé and his coworkers were all smiles and banter as they talked about their union campaign, how it feels to win, and the unexpected boost they received from filmmaker Boots Riley. On Friday, September 25, an AutoZone store in White Plains, New York, became the first of the company’s nearly seven thousand American retail locations to unionize. DuCongé and his coworkers, now members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 259, said they hadn’t been sure which way the vote would go. “The deck was really stacked against these workers trying to organize here,” said Brian Murray, an experienced organizer brought on in August by UAW Local 259 Vice President Mike DiGuiseppe. “It was because of their sticking together, the amount of fun they have, and their camaraderie, their solidarity for each other, [that] they were able to overcome a lot of union busting.” He added, “I would have expected [them] to no
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Agents search Rep. Omar’s Washington home in criminal probe as she vows she won’t ‘be silenced’ The scope of the investigation was unclear, though Trump and officials in his administration have repeatedly referred in recent months to the existence of an inquiry into Omar, a Somali-born Democrat whose status as an immigrant to the U.S. and left-wing views have drawn scrutiny from the White House and other Republicans. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last month cited an “ongoing investigation” that he suggested was examining potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork. “Something’s going to happen,” he said in a potential foreshadowing of the search.
https://apnews.com/article/ilhan-omar-home-searched-8e18c2aea948bd90f4d7a4eb32b9ec3a Buttigieg gambles on a different path for 2028 Pete Buttigieg has been able to campaign for Democrats across the country more than many of his potential 2028 rivals this past year. One reason: He doesn't have a job. That's by choice. Buttigieg said no when top Democrats urged him to run for governor or the U.S. Senate in Michigan this year.
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/11/buttigieg-gambles-on-a-different-path-for-2028 Mailers promoting a socialist candidate in Ohio’s US Senate race have links to MAGA super PAC vendor The mailers are sponsored by Enough Promises Ohio PAC and began arriving in voters’ mailboxes in recent days. They promote independent candidate Greg Levy over Brown with messages such as “Join the Revolution” and “Send a Worker to the Senate.” Levy describes himself as “Socialist running for the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio in 2026” on his X account. Levy condemned the fliers for falsely impersonating his campaign and engaging in “dirty tricks” designed to mislead voters. He said he is considering legal action.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2026-senate-ohio-brown-husted-maga-df0f117f541099713943613e9768fd75 Newsom Endorses Ballot Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 10/12/26 News Anon 3.0 12-10-26 22:25:17 No. 2931065 [Reply]
Mexican President Rejects Police Crackdown on Water Protest in Guadalajara On Sunday, the demonstration in Jalisco ended in clashes between riot police and participants who were trying to reach the governor’s residence. The organizing groups reported that four people remained missing and that journalists were also affected during the protest in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city, with more than 4 million residents.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexican-president-rejects-police-crackdown-on-water-protest-in-guadalajara/ Cubans turn to free community pharmacies as medicines grow scarce “Cuba has a medical-pharmaceutical industry that we consider strong,” María Fernández Martínez, head of the province’s pharmacy company, told the official newspaper Granma. But without supplies, “not even the most capable factory can complete the cycle.” The government also struggles to obtain packaging such as blister packs and bottles and says U.S. financial sanctions complicate payments for imports. Cuban authorities say shipments of medical supplies have also been stranded in third countries because shipping companies fear U.S. penalties for calling at Cuban ports.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-medicines-pharmacies-charity-34280901ca0d9b7a66dd1892fffa0421 Lawyers and opposition challenge Milei’s citizenship-by-investment scheme as unconstitutional In Congress, the opposition has filed requests for information and bills to repeal it. “It is unacceptable for Argentina to put its citizenship up for sale,” said Peronist deputy Agustín Rossi, a former defence minister, who called the proposal “classist” and argued it is aimed at attracting billionaires seeking to avoid restrictions that apply to foreigners, such as on buying land.
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Episode 582: Bird Penetration System (TrueAnon) Robert Skvarla joins us to discuss pigeon-guided bombs, CIA spy cats, and the animal trainers who brought behaviorism into the intelligence business. We talk Skinner, MKUltra, and Discordian pranksters, all following the ambition to turn living things into programmable machines.
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-582-bird-171791199 [film club] The Death of Chudslop There was a time, long before I was born, when my country made good fucking movies. Movies that made me feel a certain way about the ethereal idea of “American exceptionalism.” Jazzed, man. Truly jazzed to be a chud. Rambo, Red Dawn, Top Gun, The Hunt for Red October, any Bond film from the Cold War, even if he is a Euroid. These films used to be what were referred to as right-wing cinema. And holy shit, there are bangers in here. They express deep-seated beliefs of the nascent American culture of the time, particularly among those with the money to shoot film. We are the force for good. The bastard with a heart of gold. The antihero. Bad things for the sake of democracy. We kill people to save the world. That’s the take. Not just any people, but the villains of our world at the time. The Reds. When we were focused, determined, and creative. Chudslop has been core to the American cultural machine and is now being sacrificed to the same altar it built. American culture (yes, yes, I know American culture exists as an amalgamation of regional cultures and fractured identities; shut up, this is about slopaganda), as we know it, is unsustainable. It drives the collective morale of a nation down as it burns more of itself for profit. The specific time and conditions of Rocky IV have come and gone. …
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-10-10-film-club-the-death-of-chudslop Condition of the Working Class in England, by Engels, 1845 ch09. The Remaining Branches of Industry We were compelled to deal with the factory system somewhat at length, as it is an entirely novel creation of the industrial period; we shall be able to treat the other workers the more briefly, be
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United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain easily wins re-election The union’s election of leadership for a four-year term began with mail-in ballots being sent out in late August 2026, with vote tabulating commencing on 6 October. Fain won with over 68% of the vote as of Friday evening, with additional 13 candidates on his slate, United UAW, winning their elections. The closest opponent to Fain, Rich Boyer, received just over 13% of the vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/uaw-president-shawn-fain-wins-re-election US lifts sanctions on daughter of military-linked Myanmar businessman Theint Win Htet originally requested her removal in a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration. That case was dismissed last year. She then filed a second complaint in July, arguing that she has no role in her father’s business. The sanctions had blocked her US credit cards, restricted her foreign bank accounts and forced her to abandon her master’s degree at Columbia University in New York. She now lives in Thailand with her mother, who was taken off the US sanctions list last year.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/us-lifts-sanctions-on-daughter-of-military-linked-myanmar-tycoon https://archive.ph/6zZBd Coalition Files Emergency Motion to Stop Trump FCC From Unleashing Media Consolidation Spree The petition states that the Republican-controlled FCC’s decision—pushed by Chair Brendan Carr and approved in August in a 2-1 vote along party lines—was “plainly contrary to law and violates core administrative law principles.” The filing notes that Congress enacted the rule barring any single TV broadcaster from reaching more than 39% of US households—and only Congress can roll it back.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fcc-tv-consolidation-2678069354 New York prosecutors seek to sustain their case against Luigi Mangione Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 10/10/26 News Anon 3.0 11-10-26 00:56:52 No. 2930134 [Reply]
As tensions soar in the African horn, Egypt prepares to deploy troops to Somalia An Egyptian military delegation visited the Somali capital on 20 September and met Somali Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, five days after Egyptian officers met senior Somali commanders in Mogadishu to discuss defence cooperation, military training and capacity-building for the Somali National Army. Such meetings come as Egypt steps up cooperation with Somalia, following the 2025 elevation of relations between the two countries to a strategic partnership.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-prepares-deploy-troops-somalia SANDF deployed in Durban CBD after violent protests Police were over-stretched yesterday as angry protesters were spread across the city. They were demanding the repatriation of undocumented foreign nationals and the halting of asylum applications. Yesterday, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli requested the deployment of the army as the police found themselves outnumbered.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sandf-deployed-in-durban-cbd-after-violent-protests/ Hundreds of thousands march worldwide against Israel’s genocide in Gaza The Global Alliance for Palestine said the mobilisation involved at least 325 events worldwide, including 176 in Europe alone. Organisers estimated that around 250,000 people joined the London march. Demonstrators carried signs demanding the “end” of Israel’s genocide and declaring “Free Palestine” as they marched towards the British parliament. Marchers observed a two-minute silence for the more than 74,370 Palestinians Israel has killed in Gaza since October 2023. Its attacks have wounded at least 175,371 others.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/global-protests-demand-end-israels-genocide-and-apartheid Hundreds of doctors demand World Medical Association suspend Israel It was part of a protest against the continued membership of the Israeli association in the WMA, “despite them breachi
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Statement of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran on the 85th Anniversary of the Party’s Founding Statement of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran on the 85th Anniversary of the Party’s Founding
Eighty-five years of struggle against imperialism and despotism for the realization of the rights of workers and working people; for the liberation of women from gender and class oppression; for the realization of the right of Iran’s oppressed peoples to self-determination; for building a bright and progressive future for the country’s youth and students; and for peace, independence, freedom, and social justice!
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/2026/09/30/statement-of-the-central-committee-of-the-tudeh-party-of-iran-on-the-85th-anniversary-of-the-partys-founding/ After Colombia's exit, what is left of the Hague Group? Under former president Gustavo Petro, the Colombian state found it so difficult to halt coal shipments to Israel through diplomatic and bureaucratic channels that Petro called on the Wayuu, an Indigenous people of La Guajira, to occupy the train lines. Now, his right-wing successor has signed a decree resuming those exports, and Colombia has walked away from the Hague Group, the coalition it once co-chaired to hold Israel to account for breaches of international law. Its departure in August made it the third founding member, alongside Bolivia and Honduras, to leave the Hague Group in six months, leaving co-chair South Africa to steer the bloc alone. The Hague Group was founded in January 2025 by these nations, joined also by Cuba, Malaysia, Namibia and Senegal. "The Hague Group was born to advance international law in an era of impunity," South African Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola told the meeting. … The group is a kind of coalition of the willing attempting to ensure that international law is enforced in the face of a push by the United States and its allies to dismantle much of the global legal and humanitarian order. Political will is therefore essential. But in Latin America, a region where pink-wave politics once galvanised government support for Palestinians rights, the rise of a new right-wing order has led
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4 in 10 Puerto Rico adults face food insecurity The financial strain extended to the quality of food people could obtain. Among respondents, 51.9% said it had been at least a little difficult during the previous 12 months to regularly obtain and eat nutritious food that supports their family’s health and well-being. Of that group, 91.7% identified high prices as one of the main barriers. Nearly half of respondents, 46.7%, said food in their household had run out during the previous 12 months and they lacked money to buy more. Another 43.4% said they could not afford balanced meals.
https://newsismybusiness.com/4-in-10-puerto-rico-adults-face-food-insecurity/ Oversight Board warns Puerto Rico agencies: OMB authorization does not equal contract approval Under the Contract Review Policy, all contracts or related series of contracts with an aggregate expected value of $10 million or more must be submitted directly to the Oversight Board for review and approval before execution—regardless of whether OMB or the Chief of Staff has already authorized them. The requirement also applies to amendments, extensions, and modifications, even when they do not change the contract’s value.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/oversight-board-warns-puerto-rico-agencies-omb-authorization-does-not-equal-contract-approval Trump says Russia to supply diesel to US and global markets President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had agreed to supply diesel to global markets in an effort to lower fuel prices, and his administration temporarily lifted US sanctions on Russian fuel that were designed to deprive Moscow of revenues for its war on Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-big-announcement-coming-up-diesel-2026-10-09/ ICE officers shot a man in New York because they believed they were in danger, official says The shooting was the latest violent encounter w
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Support for Israeli far right surges among first-time voters, poll finds Together, the two far-right parties would secure 29 Knesset seats based on voting intentions among first-time voters, according to the poll. They outperformed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, which received 7.95 percent of the vote, equivalent to 14 seats.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-far-right-parties-surge-among-first-time-voters-poll-finds US harbouring of Assad ex-general raises questions over Syria justice drive Bassam al-Hassan, a former general who served as a strategic affairs adviser to ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and acted as a liaison between the presidential palace and Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), is reportedly living in Lebanon under an arrangement involving US and Lebanese authorities.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-harbouring-assad-ex-general-undermines-syria-justice-drive Ethiopia and Eritrea accuse one another of launching war Gedion said that Eritrean troops had advanced up to 60 kilometres (37 miles) into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and demanded their withdrawal, just days after the two nations cut diplomatic ties.Eritrea’s Minister of Information Yemane Gebremeskel rejected Ethiopia’s claims. “The Ethiopian regime has been pursuing, in effect, an unprovoked war of aggression against Eritrea for more than three years now,” he said on X.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/9/ethiopia-and-eritrea-accuse-one-another-of-launching-war https://archive.ph/Ha7qE Rising food prices and poor rains fuel fears of hunger crisis in Darfur In West Darfur, particularly the state capital El Geneina, soaring food prices, expensive imports and currency fluctuations have placed further pressure on households. Journalist Mohiuddin Zakaria told Radio Dabanga
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Thailand’s Anti-Israeli Protest Wave Isn’t About Palestine On a hot and humid morning in early September, hundreds of people gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. While a few carried familiar symbols of Palestinian solidarity – a flash of red, black, white and green here, a watermelon there – a far greater number came carrying Thai flags. For every placard demanding an end to the genocide, or a boycott of Israel, many more bore nationalist statements, from “Thailand is not for sale” to the openly antisemitic “You Jewish folks don’t understand Thai culture, so get out”. Thailand has been awash with anti-Israeli sentiment over the past few weeks, resulting in unprecedented mobilisations in the capital and on the country’s largest and most touristic island, Phuket. While Palestine solidarity has played a small part in these protests, they have mostly been organised by prominent rightwing agitators calling on supporters to “take Thailand back”. Unlike in other parts of the world, where protests condemning Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank have become a mainstay of progressive politics, until recently, few Thais seemed interested. Palestine solidarity was the quiet work of Muslim communities, a handful of student and left activists, and a small number of campaigning organisations.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/thailands-anti-israeli-protest-wave-isnt-about-palestine/ Statement by the Tudeh Party of Iran on the Fourth Anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising: The Struggle for Freedom, Social Justice, and the Liberation of Women from the Chains of Medieval Despotism, for the Establishment of Peace and the Preservation of National Sovereignty in the Face of Foreign Aggression, Continues! This year, the fourth anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising comes at a time when our homeland faces extremely difficult economic conditions and the continuing danger of war and foreign aggression. Two hundred days after what the statement describes as the criminal aggression against Iran by U.S. imperialism and Netanyahu’s Zionist regime, the killing of thousands of our compatriots, and the infliction of hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage, tens of millions of Iranians continue to
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Democrats in tight Midwest US races split on trans rights strategy After being caught flat-footed on transgender issues in the last US election, Democrats in tight midterm races are pursuing different strategies, with some adopting more conservative stances and others trying to deflect, according to a Reuters review of campaign messaging and interviews with nine party strategists and insiders.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/democrats-tight-midwest-us-races-split-trans-rights-strategy-2026-10-08/ Trump donor accuses ‘grifter’ Kimberly Guilfoyle of $100,000 quid pro quo A Trump donor accused Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece and Trump family ally, of engaging in a “quid pro quo” by asking him to pay off her $100,000 debt in exchange for access to administration officials.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/kimberly-guilfoyle-donor-wire-marco-rubio Bronx residents will be exempt from new Medicaid work rule, state officials say Because of high unemployment in the borough, Bronx residents will be exempt from Medicaid work requirements when new federal rules take effect in January, the New York state's health department confirmed on Thursday. State health officials told a meeting of hospital leaders this week that Bronx residents qualify for a federal hardship exemption that gives a pass to people living in areas with high rates of unemployment, Politico first reported.
https://gothamist.com/news/bronx-residents-will-be-exempt-from-new-medicaid-work-rule-state-officials-say https://archive.ph/ebDqM Microsoft suspended from applying for green cards for H-1B workers, JD Vance says Microsoft is suspended from applying for permanent residency for workers employed through a US visa program for high-skilled workers, JD Vance announced on Thursday. The U
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Chilean University Rectors Reject Education Cuts in 2027 Budget Bill The adjustments will negatively affect the growth of science, technology, knowledge and innovation, all of which will affect the country’s development, said Marisol Durán, president of the Consortium of State Universities. In the budget bill for next year, baseline resources will fall by 12.41%, while those allocated to promoting scientific research will decrease by a quarter compared with 2026.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-university-rectors-reject-education-cuts-in-2027-budget-bill/ Brazilian students in Rio de Janeiro march against the prospect of another Bolsonaro presidency “We’re fighting for Brazil, not for Lula,” said Talita Amaral, a 19-year-old environmental science student at a nearby university. She was wearing Brazil’s yellow and green soccer jersey, often worn by supporters of Bolsonaro, which she said was a gesture aimed at reclaiming the national colors.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-student-protest-rio-lula-bolsonaro-9b98a0fbea91622a7b0308c6de917b42 Colombia’s draft counterterrorist statute “creates foundations of dictatorial and inquisitorial regime:” opposition In a video, Cepeda said that the true purpose of the bill that was leaked earlier seeks “to advance in the formation of essentially a dictatorial regime,.. which, moreover, has such a regime prostrate to drug trafficking.” “The true objectives of this statute are to wage a crusade against the political opposition, social movements, and social protest, which is a legitimate right of citizens,” said the Senator of the Historic Pact party.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-draft-antiterrorist-statute-creates-foundations-of-dictatorial-and-inquisitorial-regime-opposition/ Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia Post too long. Click here to view the full text. OP/ED News Anon 3.0 07-10-26 23:05:34 No. 2928081
The Gen Z revolution reaches Europe – Is Britain next? What began with an 87-year-old disabled woman being evicted from her home in Madrid has developed into a revolt over the spiralling cost of rent and housing. Within a week, protestors occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, and encampments began to spread across Spain. Half a million people took to the streets of the capital on 3 October, paralysing the city as protesters chanted: “Either the rentier economy falls, or the government does”. Fast-forward to the time of writing – the Spanish government has effectively collapsed. The ‘Socialist’ Party Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was forced to call snap elections after failing to pass decrees aimed at placating the movement. From Madrid to Seville, and now Barcelona, chants of “your profits, our misery” and “no solution without expropriation” have rung out late into the evening. The radicalisation of the youth is palpable. Red flags have been paraded across the streets and main squares. In one viral clip, an incredulous interviewer asks a protester: “So people are chanting socialism or barbarism here?” to which she responds “Sí”. No further explanation needed. The movement is posing the question: who does the city belong to? Does it belong to the investment funds that speculate on housing and have doubled rents over the last decade, or to the ordinary workers who run the city, but yet are struggling to get by? Some sections of the movement are now calling for a general strike. Watch this space.
https://communist.red/the-gen-z-revolution-reaches-europe-is-britain-next/ Why we should not take sides in war - Devrim Valerian The Prime Minister wears a T-shirt now. It costs 80 quid, and his jeans cost £295. The very nice Harrington jacket he’s often seen in costs £695. Looking like an ordinary bloke is expensive these days. He’s apologised over Gaza too. He said that Labour “didn’t get it right” and “needs to do better”. It sounded like the British government was finally going to take a position on genocide. Even the climb down sounded a bit more radical than the days of Keir Starmer; “There’s increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.” But then he told us that it's not a matter for him to decide upon. Instead, it “must be for the internat
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Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says Maduro's tenure was marked by tensions with the United States. Washington accused his government of detaining Americans as leverage to extract concessions such as relief from financial sanctions. Americans whom the US classified as wrongfully detained during Maduro's tenure included five oil executives arrested on graft charges. They were freed in 2022 in exchange for two of Flores' nephews who had been convicted in the US of drug trafficking.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/maduro-wife-expected-face-new-charges-over-alleged-torture-americans-cnn-says-2026-10-07/ Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike Some of the men participating in the hunger strike released a video and an open letter, requesting they be released while they continue pursuing their asylum and immigration cases. Two Russian asylum seekers detained in Folkston also released a document they wrote, outlining what they claim to be “violations” inside, including allegations of substandard medical care, threats by GEO Group guards, moldy food and a lack of due process.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/ice-detention-facility-georgia Missouri sued over alleged decades of underfunding at historically Black university The complaint, filed in federal court in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division, seeks compensatory damages under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act for what plaintiffs describe as "educational and economic injuries" caused by decades of underfunding. It also seeks an injunction requiring Missouri to fully match Lincoln University's federal land-grant funding in the future.
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US military aid to Israel continues three years into Gaza genocide To date, at least 74,243 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, which killed at least 1,139 people. At least 1,460 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the October 11, 2025 ceasefire went into effect as Israel has continued to expand its area of control. “The bottom line is that under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration, the US has continued to provide unconditional support for Israel, both in terms of finances, arms transfers and other forms, such as diplomatic support,” according to former Department of State official Josh Paul, who now runs A New Policy lobbying firm.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7/how-us-military-aid-to-israel-continues-three-years-into-gaza-genocide https://archive.ph/0vG09 Turkey to deploy troops and air defence systems to Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks Two Turkish officials familiar with Ankara's plans told MEE that Turkey had maintained technical teams, air defence systems and electronic warfare equipment in the kingdom since last year to protect critical infrastructure, including energy facilities. One senior Turkish official said Ankara would send additional equipment, technicians, emergency response teams and accompanying combat forces. The official said a 2010 military training agreement between Saudi Arabia and Turkey allows Ankara to deploy limited forces to the kingdom for technical purposes. Further deployments, however, would require parliamentary authorisation under the Turkish constitution.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-to-deploy-troops-and-air-defence-systems-saudi-arabia Lula campaign scrambles to rebrand before Brazil runoff At the meeting, Lula pushed what is being dubbed internally the "fear strategy" to remind voters of the risks a Bolsonaro presidency he says would pose to popular social benefits. People close to the campaign say Lula blames the messaging fo
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EDITORIAL: Republicans Think Work is Woke ( Erik Houdini) I would just love to know how in the fuck preventing more people from going to college is gonna fix our economy. I would love to know how forcing colleges and stopping them from offering different degrees based on the income they make is going to somehow make the wages of everybody go up. Most motherfuckers, when presented with this question of how do we fix the economy, would say something like, We need more job programs. We need more education programs. We need to get people trained and get them back to work. That's pretty common fucking sense, but it seems like the current American regime is speedrunning having a population of uneducated homeless people. Because the way I'm looking at it, rent's never gonna go down and wages are never gonna go up. So what's the plan? They're just gonna keep raising rent until we're all homeless? How are the landlords gonna make any money? You want to work on the windmills? You want to climb the windmills and do repairs, do that good blue-collar work? Can't do it. They cut the programs. They cut the initiatives. They cut the rebates, and a whole bunch of companies went under and a lot of jobs were lost. Hey, you want to work on solar farms? You want to install solar panels, make good money doing that? Can't do it. They cut the programs. Republicans said, Nope. No green energy. Don't care if it makes new jobs. Don't care if it puts people to work. Don't care if it gives people a future. Don't care if it's good blue-collar work. Nope. It's too woke. Hey man, look, maybe you want to go to art school. That's your passion. You want to go get a degree in fucking environmental design so you could work on Elder Scrolls 6, which is probably never gonna come out. Well, too damn bad, because the Republicans said that program had to get cut too.
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-10-04-editorial-republicans-think-work-is-woke No, Digger Is Not a Misunderstood Masterpiece You may have heard already that Digger, the new film cowritten and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman) and starring Tom Cruise, is an expensive box-office bomb that got many annihilating reviews. One of the better ones sums it up perfectly: “It’s like being trapped
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AJAEE warns disputes between private operators could trigger another rate hike The Association of Retirees of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (AJAEE) warned Thursday that ongoing disputes among private companies operating critical components of the island’s power system could soon result in higher electricity bills for consumers. The organization argued that Puerto Rico is now confronting the consequences of having handed control of essential infrastructure to contractors whose business interests, they said, outweigh the island’s energy security.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/ajaee-warns-disputes-between-private-operators-could-trigger-another-rate-hike Democratic lawmakers urge FAA not to drop rule requiring epinephrine on all flights The lawmakers said it was crucial given "the on-flight presence of food items containing unlabeled allergens, a steady increase in the number of children with food allergies, the increased prevalence of a tick-borne illness that could create life-threatening allergies and the very real possibility that more than one passenger may require epinephrine during a single flight."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/democratic-lawmakers-urge-faa-not-drop-rule-requiring-epinephrine-all-flights-2026-10-05/ Obama to appear at Abdul El-Sayed rally in critical Michigan Senate race The former US president will appear with El-Sayed and the gubernatorial nominee, Jocelyn Benson, on 24 October, the state’s Democratic party announced on Monday. The rally falls on the first day of the state’s in-person early voting period and 10 days before election day. “Get. Ready,” El-Sayed wrote on social media as he confirmed the appearance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/obama-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-race Newsom signs law prompted by Berkeley housing projects that dodged labor stand Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 10/5/26 News Anon 3.0 06-10-26 00:28:19 No. 2926897 [Reply]
Mayor from Colombia’s north claims De la Espriella’s armed men intimidated him In a video message, Sincelejo Mayor Yahir Acuña said that armed men positioned themselves behind him while the president accused the mayor of corruption and threatened to pull municipal funds. The accusations were partly published on the social media pages of the president, who accused Acuña of being “a person who, like you, faces 13 corruption charges, has a video in which he explains how to embezzle funds from the PAE, and, on top of that, is set to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Justice on charges of illicit enrichment.”
https://colombiareports.com/mayor-claims-de-la-espriellas-armed-men-intimidated-him/ Brazil’s MST Wins Four Deputy, Four State Assembly Seats Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) won eight legislative seats in Sunday’s general elections, consolidating its strategy of bringing its main demands into institutional politics. Those demands include agrarian reform, family farming, agroecology and the fight against hunger and inequality.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazils-mst-wins-four-deputy-four-state-assembly-seats/ Brazil's Lula weighs VP Alckmin as next finance minister to woo centrist voters Alckmin, a veteran centrist, unsuccessfully challenged Lula for the presidency in 2006 and has served two terms as governor of Sao Paulo. He also ran Lula's Development, Industry and Trade Ministry until earlier this year, making him a key interlocutor with Washington since the US imposed sweeping tariffs on Brazilian goods. Alckmin is widely considered a moderating force in Lula's government, with strong ties to the business community, although critics say his influence has been overshadowed in Lula's current term by policies widely seen as tilting to the left.
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Brazil’s Communists ahead of the elections: Alliance with Lula or political independence? With Brazil heading to the polls in October, three communist parties are approaching the elections from sharply different positions. The Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) remains fully committed to the re-election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the PT-led coalition, while the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) is presenting its own presidential ticket headed by Edmilson Costa, and the Revolutionary Communist Party (PCBR) is calling for an independent revolutionary left position outside both the Bolsonarist camp and the Lula-led broad front. For the PCdoB, the immediate priority is defeating the far right and securing another Lula government. The party has officially endorsed the Lula-Alckmin ticket and is campaigning inside the Brasil da Esperança federation with the PT and PV, arguing that a new Lula term should deepen national development, reindustrialization and social policies. Its leaders present Bolsonarism as a neofascist, pro-US force and frame the election largely as a confrontation between the democratic-popular camp and the far right. That strategy, however, also exposes the central contradiction of the PCdoB’s electoral line: for years it has subordinated its communist identity to alliances led by the PT and to the management of capitalism through broad coalitions. Its 2026 campaign again ties communist activity to Lula’s re-election rather than to an independent communist presidential project. From a class standpoint, this leaves unresolved the question of whether repeated support for social-democratic and social-liberal governments can produce a genuinely independent political pole for the working class.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/brazils-communists-ahead-of-elections-alliance-with-lula-of-political-independence.html France: an explosive situation Since the beginning of September, social tensions have been rising day by day. As we write, tens of thousands of high school students across the country are taking to the streets to demand decent learning conditions. The government is responding with insults and police repression. On 29 September, many school students joined the powerful mobilisation
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Voters favor Democrats on key issues but lack faith in either party to solve problems: AP-NORC poll Voters are deeply dissatisfied with President Donald Trump and his Republican Party heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, and Democrats have built a clear advantage on pressing issues such as the cost of living and healthcare over just a few months. But the survey also points to a bigger problem for both parties: Few registered voters think either party is able to solve important problems or help Americans like them.
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-republicans-trump-midterms-prices-healthcare-congress-109768f7544c9e0fcc7e716de0dc2157 US FDA closes cyclospora lettuce parasite probe, finds strong link to Taylor Farms Mexico FDA said its investigation could not definitively determine how the contamination happened, but two samples showed cyclospora was present in the environment where lettuce was grown and processed. One sample was found in a tank that held outgoing wastewater at Taylor Farms de Mexico's processing facility and the other was in a drainage ditch at an iceberg lettuce grower, it said.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/colorado-cbz-management-court-of-appeals-ruling/73-be091b7d-1649-45a3-a344-0058b0eb49f7 Temecula school board members accuse colleague of placing a listening device under their desk The allegation is the latest controversy for a school board that has drawn attention in recent years over disputes involving book bans, flag bans, arguing at meetings, and even allegations of sexual harassment among board members. According to board members Steven Schwartz and Emil Barham, surveillance video recorded near the end of a closed session meeting on Sept. 22 shows board member Melinda Anderson walking to the desk used by Schwartz and Barham, pulling out an electronic device and attaching it underneath the table.
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Poll: China a more positive influence than US in Latin America The 2026 Latinobarómetro survey showed that for the first time since the annual survey began in 1995, China is seen as a more benign force than the United States. It showed 57 percent of people in Latin America considering the United States to be a positive influence, down from 60 percent in 2020. China, meanwhile, was considered a positive influence by 65 percent of respondents, a jump from the 48 percent it scored six years ago.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/poll-china-a-more-positive-influence-than-us-in-latin-america.phtml https://archive.ph/m8x0f Lula's lead over Bolsonaro narrows ahead of Brazil vote, CNT/MDA poll shows In a first-round scenario, Lula would receive 43.1% of voter support, followed by Bolsonaro (38%), Augusto Cury (3.2%), Ronaldo Caiado (3%) and Renan Santos (1.5%), according to the poll. A September 15 poll had Lula at 40.5%, Bolsonaro at 30.4%, Cury at 6%, Caiado at 3% and Santos at 2.7%
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lulas-lead-over-bolsonaro-narrows-ahead-brazil-vote-cntmda-poll-shows-2026-10-03/ Mexico City March Marks 58 Years Since Tlatelolco Massacre Thousands marched in Mexico City on Friday to mark 58 years since the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, as President Claudia Sheinbaum called for keeping the memory alive and demanded “never again” state repression.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexico-city-march-marks-58-years-since-tlatelolco-massacre/ ‘This can’t go on’: tens of thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain Demonstrators on Saturday waved posters calling for a general strike after the measures drawn up to address mass anger over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, and other housing issues, were rejected in par
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Against the Politics of Communal Fear By Bhaskar Sunkara New York City’s new municipal strategy to combat antisemitism comes just days after the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu used his platform at the United Nations to call Zohran Mamdani “the antisemitic mayor of New York” and claim that since his election “many Jews no longer feel safe” in the city. The initiative seeks to expand education, support victims of hate crimes, and fund security at Jewish institutions and other houses of worship throughout the five boroughs. Laudable as any attempt to reduce animus is, the Left should view the plan skeptically. Antisemitism, it goes without saying, is an evil. And it’s an evil that socialists have particular reason to be concerned with. For centuries, the idea that powerful Jewish interests were at the heart of social injustice was widespread. Socialists of August Bebel’s generation called antisemitism “the socialism of fools” for how it steered resentment of capitalist instability and speculation into ethnic hatred. Today Mamdani is right to condemn it. And it is understandable that he wants to give that condemnation a practical policy expression. This makes sense on the level of both principle and tactics for a political leader who has been the subject of a deliberate and baseless attempt to equate his support for Palestinian freedom with antisemitism. Any socialist mayor should oppose prejudice, enforce equal rights, and respond to specific acts of discrimination or violence. The question is whether the administration’s response is proportionate to the problem, and whether its rhetoric helps people assess their circumstances accurately or encourages them to understand their lives through a sense of communal siege.
https://jacobin.com/2026/10/antisemitism-communal-identity-mamdani-universalism Why Russia remains stubbornly insignificant to the Middle East Support for Palestinian statehood has been Moscow's position since the Soviet Union backed partition in 1947, and it has remained so since the Russian Federation's establishment in December 1991. Rather than providing the Palestinians with substantial support against their Israeli colonisers, the Russian Federation has, since 1991, at best offered nothing more than empty diplomatic rhetoric in supp
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‘This Scheme Is a Poison Pill’: Trump Blasted Over Federal School Voucher Program The US Department of the Treasury this week released proposed regulations for the first federal “school choice” program, as proponents call it, drawing a fresh wave of condemnation from critics who have expressed concerns since President Donald Trump signed last year’s Republican budget package.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-school-voucher-program Vance's fraud crackdown may raise costs for US health insurers, enrollees The 2010 Affordable Care Act created income-based government-subsidized health plans for individuals, with 19 million people now enrolled. Millions have dropped out this year as extra COVID-19 pandemic subsidies expired. The Trump administration now says fraud contributed to the growth. Vice President JD Vance said last week the government had removed 760,000 enrollees it believed did not exist or who had been fraudulently signed up by brokers and were unaware of their insurance coverage. Another 400,000 are under review.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/vances-fraud-crackdown-may-raise-costs-us-health-insurers-enrollees-2026-10-02/ Democrats put $3.4M behind Susan Collins allegations The big buy from Senate Majority PAC suggests Democrats think they can turn a complicated investigation into a simple message attacking Collins' willingness to put Maine first. It also suggests they don't think the allegations in the ProPublica story — which Collins vigorously disputes — have broken through with Maine voters. "Susan Collins took illegal campaign money and steered millions in government contracts to the donor," a female narrator says in the ad.
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Lapid says young Israelis backed killing 'everyone' in Gaza Speaking in the interview, Lapid described the exchange as painful and deeply troubling. "I had a painful meeting with a group of very young people, and I heard from them all those statements calling for killing everyone and claiming that there are no innocents," he said. When asked "Even babies?", he said the group replied: "Babies too, because eventually they will grow up and become terrorists."
https://en.yenisafak.com/world/lapid-young-israelis-backed-killing-everyone-in-gaza-3724030 https://archive.ph/y1Yis Pakistan sent four planeloads of weapons to Saudi-backed government in Yemen: Report The Pakistani weapons shipments to the port city of Aden, reported by Reuters on Friday, suggest that Islamabad is increasing its involvement in the war. Pakistan delivered air defence systems, light artillery, drones and anti-drone systems to Aden, Reuters reported, citing a Pakistani government official. In addition, Pakistani military advisers are also on the ground with their Saudi counterparts supporting Yemeni troops.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-sent-four-planeloads-weapons-saudi-backed-government-yemen-report US sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid stalemate in Iran war The deployment, which includes a specialist amphibious attack group, underscores the rapidly evolving dynamic of Trump’s war against Iran as midterm elections in the US loom large. Trump has threatened that a post-midterm election escalation remains a viable option – despite his initial promises that the war would last a matter of weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/02/us-third-aircraft-carrier-middle-east-iran Kandahar governor denies hosting militant leaders’ talks on attacks in Pakistan Sharif alleged at a televised news conferen
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Nikos Romanos Acquitted As Greek Government Pushes Terrorism Cases Testing Greece’s controversial terrorism law, Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos, alongside Argyrios K. and Dimitris P., was acquitted of terrorism charges earlier this year in connection with an explosion in an apartment in Athens in October 2024. For the same case, Marianna Manoura was sentenced to 19 years in prison on explosives and terrorism charges, while Dimitra Zarafeta received an eight-year sentence. The charges against Romanos were centered on a partial fingerprint found on a plastic bag where the accidental explosion occurred in the Ampelokipi neighborhood. The investigation turned into a terrorism case and renewed attention on Romanos who previously gained notoriety in 2008 after witnessing the police kill his friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos, which triggered weeks of unrest across Greece.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/nikos-romanos-acquitted-as-greek-government-pushes-terrorism-cases/ Ireland: Pre-Budget Protest Donald Trump visited Ireland recently. It was a two-day visit so he could play golf. The estimated cost to the Irish taxpayer is reported to be in excess of 20 million Euros (Clare Echo, 6/8/26). Not surprisingly, the visit caused controversy and resulted in mass protests. The latter is a good thing. What is strange, however, was the lack of enthusiasm for a protest held just one week later in Dublin. A protest was called for September 19 th in Parnell Square, Central Dublin, as a pre-Budget demonstration. The budget is due to be announced on October 6 th by Finance Minister Simon Harris on behalf of the right-wing coalition of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. The government is sitting on a surplus, but indications are they intend to do little or nothing to help those in need of support. There are a number of basic issues that highlight a social crisis in the 26 Counties. A big one is housing. Social housing is no longer being built people are waiting years on lists and private landlords are allowed to get away with exorbitant rents. It is not unusual for people to pay 40 or 50% of their income on rent. That’s if you can actually find somewhere in the first place. Many young people are living in the bedrooms they grew up in, since availability is as much
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Most Americans say US-Israel war on Iran not worth fighting: Poll The poll also indicated that, despite their frustration, two-thirds of Republicans surveyed said that higher than usual prices are due to factors outside of Trump’s control, with about one-third saying it was directly related to Trump’s policies. The sombre numbers suggest the president remains deeply unpopular nationally, with some Republicans also faulting him for failing to deliver on promised relief.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/1/most-americans-say-us-israel-war-on-iran-not-worth-fighting-poll https://archive.ph/hikK9 ‘Matter of Life and Death’: Senators Demand Trump Administration Boost Heating Aid as Iran War Hikes Costs In a letter sent to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the senators—19 Democrats along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—urged an emergency appropriation request for “at least $3 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP),” which would supplement the $4 billion already allocated to the heating assistance initiative.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-heating-oil FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen Ellaboudy himself was recorded telling FBI informants, whom officials had introduced into the investigation, that he had to be smuggled into and out of Yemen and that he had hoped to reach the country’s capital to make government-level connections, the affidavit says. He was ultimately unable to make it to Sanaa, the FBI said.
https://apnews.com/article/houthis-fbi-yemen-iran-arrest-3df1b86e80c30d5ce053301f62f51d8e PAC spent $131 million in 17 days to rescue Paxton in Texas Senate race Senate Majority PAC, the main super PAC for Senate Democrats, just launched its bid to boost Talarico and target Paxton. A PAC backing Talarico, Lone Star Rising, has
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Eritrea and Ethiopia shutter embassies as new Red Sea conflict looms The strike punctured Addis Ababa’s relative calm despite Ethiopia’s federal government battling an alliance of rebel movements opposed to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia’s regions of Tigray, Amhara and Afar. Western and regional officials in Addis Ababa confirmed to Middle East Eye the sound of explosions in the capital due to a drone strike. AFP reported that the explosion rocked the Ethiopian National Defence Force headquarters in the Tor Hayloch area of Addis Ababa. In a statement, Ethiopia accused Eritrea of engaging in “direct and indirect acts of hostility and belligerence” against it.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eritrea-and-ethiopia-shutter-embassies-new-red-sea-war-looming Protesters against illegal immigration in South Africa call for more deportations With some brandishing traditional Zulu weapons and singing cultural songs, they marched through Durban’s streets. Police didn’t report any incidents of violence against foreigners during the protest. A similar deadline set for June 30 sparked a mass repatriation of foreigners to their various African countries after attacks on immigrants. The governments of those nations arranged for the evacuation of their citizens.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-protest-tensions-c086e617b555643510541f9c9906ca4b Flydubai co-pilot ‘assaulted’ captain before landing: Initial Saudi probe Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says that a preliminary investigation into the emergency landing of a Flydubai flight this week found that “the pilot was assaulted by his co-pilot, resulting in various injuries to both”. the ministry said on Thursday that an initial investigation into the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was conducted by Saudi authorities with the participation of a security team from the United Arab Emirates.
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CP of the Workers of Spain, Press releases: In light of the mobilizations for the right to housing and the government’s decrees The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) welcomes the scale and determination of the mobilisations for the right to housing taking place across the country, particularly in Puerta del Sol, following the eviction of Maricarmen. The coalition Government has been forced, solely and exclusively as a result of popular pressure in the streets, to approve two Royal Decrees introducing a number of urgent measures, at a time when the relentless rise in rental and property prices, together with the threat of eviction, is making access to housing increasingly difficult for millions of workers. Once again, organisation and struggle have proven to be the most powerful tools at our disposal: they enable us to win gains and to impose our interests. The lesson that we, as the working class, must draw is the need to continue further down this path. For some time now, the number of strikes and mobilisations by different sectors of workers has been steadily increasing in Spain, and the task now must be to strengthen a unified perspective: organisational unity and programmatic unity.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-the-Workers-of-Spain-Press-releases-In-light-of-the-mobilizations-for-the-right-to-housing-and-the-governments-decrees/ Democrats Have Created a Consultant-Driven Echo Chamber Review of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative by Evan Barker (Threshold Editions, 2026) “The number one rule of political fundraising,” Evan Barker writes in the first line of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, “is to never, ever, under any circumstances, speak about it publicly.” Then she spends 288 pages talking about it, and it’s a wonderful thing that she does. Barker’s insider account of her time deep in the bowels of the Democratic Party often reads like The Jungle of Democratic fundraising: Upton Sinclair showed readers how the sausage got made, and Barker shows how the candidates do. By the end, it’s clear that the Democrats are a glorified fundraising organization with an electoral department attached, one that absorbs idealism,
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Hegseth confirms the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals The Pentagon chief announced the creation of a new four-star command to oversee the rollout of autonomous and robotic capabilities in what he called “the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history.” The rollout comes a month after officials said an Army unit based in Europe that specialized in drone warfare had been directed to return to being a traditional infantry batallion, ending its efforts to learn and use the battlefield technology.
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-pentagon-generals-job-cuts-67a20b026ee858895c7e5ff7fadbc029 Millions of student-loan accounts are being transferred to the Treasury — and the first phase is launching In addition to the new support center, the Treasury Department is also seeking to partner with vendors to facilitate collections on defaulted student loans, a Treasury official previously told Business Insider. Involuntary collections, which include wage garnishment and the seizure of federal benefits, are paused, and the administration has not commented on when the pause will lift.
https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-transfer-to-treasury-first-phase-defaults-repayment-launching-2026-9 Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill, saying ‘toothless’ legislation ‘misses the mark’ The Ratepayer Protection Act failed by a 57-to-43 vote, falling just shy of the 60 votes necessary to advance through the Republican-controlled chamber. Four Democrats – Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and both Georgia senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock – joined Republicans in support of the measure.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/senate-datacenter-energy-bill Groups Call Senate Permitting Deal a ‘Blatant Giveaway to Big Oil and Big Tech’ A bipartisan Senate proposal to overhaul federal permitting rules drew fierce oppositio
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‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities While some of the key demands of the protest have been better lighting and policing, Dhruw emphasised that for anything to change, the country required a deep societal shift where men no longer felt they had ownership over women’s bodies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/rapes-triggers-mass-protests-indian-universities Afghanistan’s defense ministry claims forces killed 41 insurgents crossing from Pakistan The insurgents included members of the Islamic State group, the ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday night. It said it had killed 41 and captured another 62 in the Kamdesh district of the northeastern province of Nuristan from Sunday to Tuesday. The defense ministry said the fighters had crossed into Afghanistan “with the support” of Pakistan.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-border-fighting-62e0c91d68e8f8760f1bb7910ee9b38d Iranians face soaring medicine prices as US blockade and sanctions hit hard The US naval blockade has forced importers on to more expensive air routes, now threatened by new sanctions on Iranian airlines. Bahman Sabour of the Tehran Pharmacies Association said US sanctions do not directly target medicines, but financial sanctions have long discouraged international banks and companies from processing pharmaceutical transactions for fear of falling foul of restrictions.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/iranians-face-soaring-prices-medicine-us-blockade-and-sanctions-hit-hard Sadr orders ‘immediate’ dissolution of anti-US force, calls for reciprocal US diplomacy “We announce the immediate dissolution of the Promised Day Brigade, and the conversion of the Imam al-Mahdi Army into the Ansar al-Imam al-Mahdi Institution,” Sadr said in a Wednesday statement. Sadr also called on the US military to compensate Iraq for
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Cambridge University welcomes Reform, Palantir, and a ‘race realist’ Yet another scandal has emerged at Cambridge University. It concerns James Orr, an associate professor in the Faculty of Divinity who was, until recently, the head of policy for Reform UK and a senior advisor to Nigel Farage. A six-month investigation by Byline Times exposed that the wheels of Orr’s appointment were greased by a secret five-figure donation from none other than Peter Thiel, the shadowy genocidal tech billionaire and former associate of Jeffrey Epstein. And that Orr has been using his academic position to create a recruitment pipeline of Cambridge students into Reform!
https://communist.red/cambridge-university-welcomes-reform-palantir-and-a-race-realist/ Amazon Is Perfecting Total Surveillance of Its Workforce Although Amazon is increasingly synonymous with worker surveillance, the logistics behemoth has never been a pioneer in that space. UPS was the first fleet to install GPS in their vehicles back in 1991. Netradyne, the company that makes the AI-powered product Driver.i installed in most vehicles in Amazon’s fleet, had already logged over a hundred million minutes of driving time before Amazon signed the firm on. But with each new iteration of its delivery-aid-cum-surveillance tech, Amazon has proven its knack for taking an existing product and deploying it in a dystopian direction. And other companies tend to follow its lead. “Smart delivery glasses,” Amazon’s latest gadgets, which come with a specialized vest with a built-in battery-pack, were introduced on their in-house news site last October to little fanfare; only a couple of niche tech websites covered it. According to a recent post on r/AmazonDSPDrivers, a Reddit community for Amazon’s scattered global network of Delivery Service Partner (DSP) drivers, training with the smart glasses at some DSPs has begun. It’s not unlikely that a nationwide rollout may come as soon as this year’s holiday season. On the surface, the aim of smart delivery glasses is to replace the use of the smartphone on the job, allowing the driver to pay attention to their surroundings instead of looking at their phone. For DSP drivers, the smartphone is everything: It identifies packages, provides a walking path from the vehicle to
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EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract The lawsuit, filed by two local unions of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), claims the agency failed to justify the contract’s termination and was motivated by a desire to repress political dissent, a violation of the employees’ first amendment rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/epa-union-sues-trump-administration US lawmakers including Sen. Warren push energy regulators to reject acquisition of power company AES BlackRock's (BLK.N), Global Infrastructure Partners, alongside Swedish private equity EQT (EQTAB.ST), and other investors, agreed in March to acquire AES (AES.N), in a deal valued at about $33.4 billion including debt, making it one of the largest power sector transactions in recent years. "The private equity industry’s involvement in the public utility market has significant implications for consumers’ energy costs at a time when Americans are facing record high utility bills," said the letter dated Sept. 28, which was directed to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Laura Swett.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lawmakers-including-sen-warren-push-energy-regulators-reject-acquisition-2026-09-29/ Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds Information is missing on over half of deaths at work of people under the age of 18 in the US because of significant gaps in child labor data, according to a government accountability office (GAO) report released on Tuesday. The report found that between 2013 and 2023, an average of 24 children under the age of 18 died each year due to work-related incidents. Over half of the 260 child fatality cases did not contain detailed data on the cause of death or the industry the child worked in.
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How RAF Fairford 'bomb plot' narrative fell apart as US and UK made competing claims But within hours, the idea that a major terrorist plot had been foiled started to fall apart. The arrested men were all British nationals in their twenties, not foreigners as Farage had speculated. Moreover they were released on police bail, not even going before a judge. As Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, pointed out, this indicated the men are not suspected of terrorism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-raf-fairford-bomb-plot-narrative-fell-apart-us-and-uk-made-competing-claims Scotland's Communists stand with Garvaghy Road COMMUNISTS have challenged Police Scotland’s decision to send 200 officers to protect an Orange march in Portadown. Banned as a provocation in 1998, the Drumcree Orange march returned this year after the Parades Commission judged it “low risk,” despite a legal challenge and a three-day standoff.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scotlands-communists-stand-garvaghy-road French police clash with teens blockading schools as unions stage day of protests French teenagers on Tuesday clashed with police as they kept up a blockade of high schools in cities across the country to demand better conditions and more teacher hirings. The escalating standoff came as unions staged a day of demonstrations against a cost-cutting budget drafted by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's embattled government.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260929-french-police-clash-with-teens-blockading-schools-as-union-stage-day-of-protests https://archive.ph/0ne9K Spain proposes ban on evictions as ousted 87-year-old accepts offer to return home Hundreds of people remained camped in one of Madrid's main squares on Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal's removal from her ho
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Palestinian communists seek broad electoral alliance to challenge Fatah-Hamas polarization The Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) is stepping up preparations for the November 28 legislative elections, working to forge a broad left-wing, democratic and social alliance that could emerge as a third political pole beyond the longstanding Fatah-Hamas polarization. PPP General Secretary Bassam al-Salhi said the party does not regard the elections simply as a contest for parliamentary seats, but as an opportunity to rebuild Palestinian political institutions and restore popular participation. Al-Salhi argued that the vote must go ahead, its results must be respected and the process should ultimately produce “one government and one Legislative Council,” overcoming the existence of parallel political structures.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/09/palestinian-communists-seek-broad-electoral-alliance-to-challenge-fatah-hamas-polarization.html Democratic Party Consultants Surround Troy Jackson with Pro-Israel Donors The Troy Jackson campaign in Maine may have found a new way to measure just how far Democratic Party consultants are able to drag a candidate away from his grassroots supporters. This week, as Jackson ventured into the Facebook group set up for his volunteers, he was facing a legion of Maine supporters expressing a deep sense of betrayal, following an exposé by Rebecca Traister in New York Magazine, which had laid out in precise detail how a squadron of mostly out-of-state political consultants had done as much as possible to drain the life from Jackson and his campaign. In the Facebook group, Jackson’s defense of his campaign, and his attack on the reporting, was considered so condescending that supporters concluded there was no way that Jackson himself was running the account—and promptly kicked Jackson out of his own Facebook group, with less than six weeks until election day. Jackson, it turned out, was indeed still manning his own Facebook account, and he has since been allowed back in. But the damage his consultant-run campaign has done to his relationship with Maine voters will take more than a restored account to repair. Interviews with sources in Jackson’s orbit, and a review of campaign do
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ACLU demands immediate withdrawal of PRNG troops from Washington =
More than 150 members of the Puerto Rico National Guard continue patrolling neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., a deployment the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Puerto Rico denounced this week as unjustified and politically motivated.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/aclu-demands-immediate-withdrawal-of-prng-troops-from-washington AI giants, unions join forces for data center fight The new group, the American Infrastructure Alliance, wants to partner with state and local officials to create standards and guardrails for data centers in 2027. In return, the coalition hopes to head off moratoriums on new construction. The group is planning initial campaigns in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Indiana and South Carolina. The alliance is backed by Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS and SoftBank Group, along with key unions, including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/28/ai-industry-unions-data-centers https://archive.ph/abFeB Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns From the outset, Bailey's relationship with Patel was troubled. Initially, Bailey was not invited to meetings, according to two sources familiar with their dynamic, with one adding that Patel instructed staff to refer to him as director, to Bongino as deputy director and Bailey as co-deputy director.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi-official-andrew-bailey-resigns/ Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Over 1,000 drivers, jeepney operators set to join transport strike in Bacolod City The groups said they will stop operations to denounce the Marcos regime’s failure to control fuel prices, which the Oil Deregulation Law allows to rise unchecked. KNETCO said 85% of drivers and operators in Bacolod City are already earning insufficient daily incomes and have been driven into poverty. They will also demand that the Marcos regime remove the value-added tax and excise tax to reduce fuel prices. They will simultaneously push for diesel and gasoline prices to be rolled back to their previous price of ₱55/liter.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/over-1000-drivers-jeepney-operators-set-to-join-transport-strike-in-bacolod-city/ ‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño In Hong Kong, authorities have already been forced to revise workplace policies, after the city experienced its hottest day on record on 9 August. During times of extreme heat, companies are expected to reschedule work, provide cooling equipment and rest breaks for their employees. Employers in the international financial hub could even face prosecution if they fail to provide staff with support at times of sweltering heat. In mainland China a 100-day campaign has been launched to prepare for extreme weather and help safeguard harvests against the opposing extremes of drought and intense rainfall.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/how-asia-is-preparing-for-supersized-el-nino-global-warming Airstrike near a market in Myanmar’s Rakhine state kills 33 people Monday’s attack occurred in Kyauktaw township, about 340 kilometers (210 miles) west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, according to the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic armed group based in Rakhine which controls Kyauktaw. It said a fighter jet dropped two bombs near a local market around noon, killing 33 people, including vendors, shoppers and pedestrians.
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Ethiopia’s new rebel alliance faces an old problem We have seen part of this story before, though this time the alliance took longer to form. In November 2021, nine opposition groups hastily announced the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces. Tigrayan forces and the OLA advanced towards Addis Ababa, while the alliance’s leaders spoke of dismantling Abiy’s government and installing a transitional authority. By January 2022, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front had left the united front, accusing the TPLF of killing Afar civilians. In December of the same year, the Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement signed a peace deal with the regional government. The federal army counterattacked, Tigrayan forces withdrew from neighbouring regions and the TPLF eventually signed the 2022 Pretoria agreement with the government. That pact required the TPLF to stop supporting armed groups elsewhere in Ethiopia. The same pattern could repeat itself. The lesson is not that 2026 will mirror 2021 exactly. The new alliance includes Fano, whose fighters stood with the federal government against the TPLF during the earlier war and now fight Abiy. The government is also fighting on several fronts. But the precedent shows how quickly a common enemy can stop being enough when battlefield fortunes change. Both Fano and the TPLF claim western Tigray, or what the Amhara call Wolgait-Tsegede. The founding statement offers no settlement. A Tigrayan leadership that abandons its claim risks alienating people displaced from their homes; a Fano leadership that concedes it risks losing the support of fighters for whom the territory is central. Calling the issue a matter for later negotiations buys time but does not create a compromise. The same problem reaches beyond the north: Oromo, Amhara and Somali movements do not share one vision of Ethiopia’s federal order, boundaries or distribution of power.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/25/ethiopias-new-rebel-alliance-faces-an-old-problem Mamdani Says He Supports Palestine, but Let the NYPD Arrest Anti-Netanyahu Protesters Yesterday’s scenes were a betrayal of all of those who protested as well as the hundreds of thousands of voters and activists who brought Mamdani to power — a growing
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‘Working People Won’: Unions Score Deal to Shield Federal Workers From Government Shutdown Firings The settlement announced Friday settles litigation stemming from the Trump administration’s actions during the 43-day government shutdown in 2025, which was the longest in US history. The administration had directed agencies to implement reductions in force (RIFs) targeting workers whose programs it deemed inconsistent with President Donald Trump’s agenda.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/federal-employee-unions-settlement 'Anonymous' sent 23 donations at the behest of Mayor Bass in under 2 weeks Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has filed hundreds of state-mandated “transparency” reports intended to disclose millions of dollars donated to third parties at her behest, but at least 23 filings reviewed by The Center Square show her requesting money from "Anonymous." Anonymous donations are legal in some circumstances, but they defeat the purpose of a California transparency system intended to let the public know who elected officials are soliciting for money and what their underlying motivations could be.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_2423b80d-55b8-4265-86e3-393de4e0174d.html https://archive.ph/InSrE How big grocers have been limiting food access in California As Albertsons protects its profits and gears up to close a handful of California locations — which would lower its operating costs — communities might not get a chance to see these grocery stores replaced. In addition to “lease squatting” uncovered by SFGATE’s investigation on “zombie stores,” companies like Albertsons can maintain their power by blocking competitors through the use of grocery restrictive covenants: stipulations written into deed and lease agreements that limit or completely prohibit the operation of a grocery store on a piece of property.
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German school students walk out over compulsory conscription Demonstrations were set to be held in over 100 German cities. It is the fourth nationwide school strike since the movement launched in late 2025. Organisers of the protests say previous rounds of protests involved around 50,000 school students.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-school-students-walk-out-compulsory-conscription-draft Poland halted asylum claims at the Belarus border and now wants Europe to follow its example The prospect of an EU-wide approach appeared to move closer on Sept. 16, when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU executive branch would soon propose a new “European emergency response framework” for cases of “engineered and weaponized” mass migration.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-european-union-migration-international-law-refugees-56b5a529a2541dc844d0cf5544bed1b0 Ukraine's steel industry is nearing collapse — and calling for help from abroad Ukraine’s largest steel company, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, said on Sept. 25 that it cannot restart steel production amid a surge in Russian strikes on factories, as the embattled sector calls for more domestic and international support to prevent its total collapse.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-steel-industry-is-nearing-collapse-and-calling-for-help-from-abroad/ https://archive.ph/UesTn Ukraine kills three in strike on humanitarian mission – Russian officials The incident, which also left one volunteer injured, occurred near the village of Novobogdanovka, Zaporozhye Governor Evgeny Balitsky said on Friday. He accused Ukraine of carrying out a “cynical terrorist attack.” Omsk Governor Vitaly Khotsenko pledged support for the affected families.
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Colombia Extradites FARC Dissident Negotiator To The U.S. Rojas, who headed the Comandos de Frontera, a FARC dissident group operating in southern Colombia, was transferred before dawn from La Picota prison in Bogotá to the Catam military base and later to the Combat Air Command No. 3 in Malambo, in the metropolitan area of Barranquilla. De la Espriella handed Rojas over to U.S. authorities inside a military hangar, where Rojas appeared handcuffed and wearing prison clothing while being guarded by Interpol agents and armed military personnel.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-extradites-farc-dissident-u-s/ Former far-right group member found guilty of murdering Argentina rugby star A former member of a violent far-right group was found guilty on Friday of murdering former Argentina rugby international Federico Aramburu four years ago in Paris, following an altercation near the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Loik Le Priol, 32, whom the court said was "animated by the will to kill", was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
https://www.reuters.com/world/former-far-right-group-member-found-guilty-murdering-argentina-rugby-star-2026-09-25/ US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering On 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international waters near Ecuador. “The gringos were all armed as if they were going to war,” said the boat’s captain, Mero Calderón, 50. “I tried to show them our catch to prove that we were there working, but they wouldn’t listen,” he added. “They brought two huge bombs aboard, took us to their ship, handcuffed and blindfolded us, and blew our boat to pieces,” said Calderón, who along with five other fishers, was handed over to local authorities.
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(Chapo Trap House)1073 - Unsafe, Illegal, and Common feat. Kylie Cheung (9/21/26) Journalist and author Kylie Cheung joins us for a survey of abortion rights in the post-Dobbs landscape. We discuss the anti-abortion surveillance state, the medical establishment’s failure to meet the moment, and the right’s construction of a broadly pro-rape politics. We also discuss the Democratic Party’s failures in protecting abortion and their continual usage of reproductive rights to hold voters hostage despite funding genocide—including genocide of pregnant women—abroad.
https://podbay.fm/p/chapo-trap-house/e/1790054513 A Union Feud Shouldn’t Sink California’s Billionaire Tax While much of the discourse around Prop 40 has understandably been devoted to what it means to tax the billionaires, it is saving Medi-Cal — and not some vague notion of “punishing the rich” — that is the central purpose of the initiative. However, rather than support this pragmatic solution to a looming crisis, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California has officially remained neutral on the initiative, which was put forth by one of their own member unions, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW). Now investigations commissioned by SEIU California and the international union allege that SEIU-UHW’s president, Dave Regan, the man widely acknowledged as the architect of the tax, has attempted to “extort” support for Prop 40 from them, according to the inflammatory headline in the Los Angeles Times, a newspaper owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. Coming less than two months before the election in November, the allegations against Regan bear all the hallmarks of a politically timed campaign — an attempt to chip away at Prop 40’s popularity. Now SEIU will have to decide which path to take: save health care coverage for nearly fifteen million Californians, or surrender to the billionaires. The key allegations against Regan are that he attempted to “extort” support for Prop 40 from SEIU California by threatening to investigate governance issues at the state council, and that this action was part of a pattern of “bullying,” directed at women in particular. At issue are Regan’s interactions with SEIU California’s then president, David Huerta, and its executive director, Tia Orr, who claims Regan attempted
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US weighs new limits on Cuban travel at the UN as Havana decries Trump’s economic squeeze Even as a sizable Cuban delegation was approved to come to the U.N. General Assembly this week, the State Department is now weighing “strict controls” on the officials who plan to return next month for an annual U.N. vote on the decadeslong U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-oil-embargo-united-nations-trump-cdf46e89c7b33077efd0d8d31e265c18 Senate narrowly votes down resolution calling for end to Iran war All but four Republicans voted against the measure despite concerns that GOP candidates will face fallout in November’s midterm elections from the war’s economic costs. Some Republicans running in tight races have recently broken with President Donald Trump and called for an end to the war to bring gas prices down, a sign of potential voter discontent over the war’s impact on the economy. The Republicans who voted for the resolution were Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Maine’s Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the lone Democrat to vote against it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/iran-war-powers-senate-vote-fuel.html Marking One Year of NSPM-7, Rights Advocates Call On Congress to Rein In FBI’s Spying Capabilities The 19-page report, titled “7Can the FBI Spy on the First Amendment?,” was sent to every congressional office by the advocacy group Defending Rights and Dissent (DRAD), exactly a year after the president signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fbi-national-security Federal court says Pentagon can label Anthropic a supply chain risk The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic’s Claude models from its systems and bar the use of its products for Defense Department work. Judges from the U.S.
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Panel calls for giving police option to remotely analyze tokuryū members’ phones An expert panel under the National Police Agency called for giving police the option as swiftly as possible of remotely analyzing smartphones used by members of loosely organized anonymous criminal groups.In a proposal compiled Thursday, the panel highlighted the need for new measures to prevent damages related to crimes committed by tokuryū groups. The NPA plans to submit a bill to revise the police duties execution law to an extraordinary parliamentary session that may be convened early next month, after working out the details of the proposed remote analysis.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/25/japan/crime-legal/tokury-smartphones-remote/ https://archive.ph/HS9js Philippines: Barricades Erected Against Mining Monopoly in Barangay Yabbi After residents of Barangay Yabbi, in Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vicaya, learned that the North Luzon Mineral Resources Corporation (NLMRC) would be routing its shipments of crude oil and materials through their village – residents decided to take matters into their own hands and erected a barricade, successfully blocking the shipments, Ang Bayan reports.
https://redherald.org/2026/09/24/philippines-barricades-erected-against-mining-monopoly-in-barangay-yabbi/ Pakistan locks down Islamabad as Imran Khan’s party vows to march on capital Public frustration has mounted in Islamabad as the government’s measures to stop Khan’s party supporters having any way to enter the capital has led to the city resembling a high-security fortress. More than 1,000 shipping containers, many fortified with spikes, have blockaded roads and sandbags were placed on bridges, while a key highway into the capital was closed. Public gatherings have been banned in Islamabad and 22,000 police and other security personnel have been deployed across the capital.
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Liberal dilemmas as the ruling class seeks a new vehicle for fragmented Britain ED DAVEY has the perennial problem of Lib Dem leaders — how to make his second division team avoid further relegation. With polls showing just one in 12 voters considering voting for his party the Lib Dems are in fifth place behind Labour, Reform, the Tories and the Greens who have laid siege to a slice of their voters. Where Davey is right is in arguing that some elements in our ruling Establishment favour a Tory/Reform UK coalition. (Davey didn’t put it in these terms because to do so might draw attention to the uncomfortable fact that the austerity policies currently driving some of the support towards Nigel Farage were the centrepiece of Cameron’s Tory-Lib Dem coalition government and Lib Dem Treasury ministers were in the driving seat.)
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ed-davey-liberal-democrats-polls-dilemmas-ruling-class-britain What Are Prediction Markets—and Can They Really Predict the Future? Supporters argue that this process aggregates publicly available information into a real-time forecast, allowing markets to reveal probabilities that sometimes outperform polls or expert opinion. Critics counter that these same incentives can reward speculation, manipulation, or insider knowledge, raising questions about whether they function primarily as forecasting tools, gambling platforms, or something in between. A contract’s price fluctuates with the probability of an event occurring and reflects that prediction. The price is intended to serve as the implied probability of the event occurring. Every contract includes a resolution date and rules that indicate how and when it will be settled. When the resolution date arrives, the market closes automatically, and the bettor is informed about the outcome. One major advantage of prediction markets is their simplicity. Will a given event occur by a certain date? It’s either yes or no. On two of the most prominent markets, Kalshi and Polymarket, a user buys one or more contracts that pay out $1 each if they’re right and nothing if they’re wrong.Unlike Kalshi, Polymarket relies on UMA (Universal Market Access), a decentralized oracle protocol, to resolve markets. Most outcomes are finalized automatical
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Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call The fossil fuel industry secured an estimated $190bn in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade after responding to Donald Trump’s pre-election call for major campaign donations, leaving American taxpayers to shoulder higher bills and public health costs associated with pollution, according to a new report.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/fossil-fuels-trump-donations Homeland Security defends officers in immigrant’s fatal car crash in Michigan Federal immigration officers were about a half-mile away when a man who was illegally in the U.S. crashed a car at high speed and died in Michigan last weekend, authorities said Thursday, attempting to rebut any claim that they were in hot pursuit.
https://apnews.com/article/immigrant-fatal-crash-michigan-3938983d2a55aab9dcb5b42ba6c6cda5 Mikie Sherrill demands NJ lieutenant governor resign after report found improper behavior with women The investigation — first reported on Sept. 4 but commissioned by Gov. Mikie Sherrill more than three months earlier — focused on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell’s conduct in office. The report found Caldwell engaged in ethics violations, including attempts to promote a romantic partner in a state job — while not disclosing the personal relationship.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/mikie-sherrill-demands-nj-lieutenant-governor-resign-after-report-found-improper-behavior-with-women-01092915 Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
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Argentina’s poverty rate rises above 30% under President Milei, reversing recent decline Thursday’s report suggests that progress has lost momentum as unemployment edges higher and rising prices squeeze Argentines’ purchasing power, with average salaries still below where they stood in real terms when Milei took office in December 2023. Average per-capita household income rose 11.5% from the previous six months, while the basic basket of goods used to set the poverty line increased nearly 20%, INDEC said.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-javier-milei-economy-inflation-indec-austerity-84acfa87fe1bba6d06b387afbfe6abb7 Illegal Speedboat Incursion Into Cuba Sought a U.S. Military Intervention One of the participants revealed that the group of ten men who departed from the Florida Keys bound for the island with weapons, ammunition, and explosives wanted to “incite the Cuban people to take up arms, control a province for 72 hours,” and then request assistance from U.S. authorities. The Belly of the Beast’s investigation shares the testimonies of four survivors of the incident, which occurred in Cuban territorial waters and resulted in the deaths of four crew members.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/illegal-speedboat-incursion-into-cuba-sought-a-u-s-military-intervention/ Canadian unions oppose changes to country’s labour code The Building Canada Strong Act has been tabled in Canada’s House of Commons, alongside other measures aimed at fast-tracking “project approvals,” strengthening trade links and modernising ports. But unions say this could also mean greater state intervention in collective bargaining when negotiations become protracted by including the appointment of a “special mediator” to bring about a resolution to a dispute, including “binding arbitration.”
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Revolutionary Communist Youth Union (Bolsheviks) denounces State Duma elections as a bourgeois farce The Revolutionary Communist Youth Union (Bolsheviks), RKSM(b), has denounced Russia’s September 18–20 State Duma elections as a political farce serving the interests of the ruling capitalist class, rejecting both support for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and called for so-called “protest voting.” In a statement issued ahead of the elections, the Central Committee of RKSM(b) condemned the ongoing war, which it characterized as imperialist, and its devastating consequences for the working people. It pointed to mounting economic difficulties, deteriorating living standards, military casualties and growing repression, accusing the Russian bourgeoisie of exploiting the war to intensify nationalism, suppress dissent and strengthen its grip on political power.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/09/revolutionary-communist-youth-union-bolsheviks-denounces-state-duma-elections-as-bourgeois-farce.html To Save Humanity from AI, End Capitalism It’s been a whirlwind. Last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly said we need to slow down AI development because security risks are becoming too high. This is a euphemism for the risk of a catastrophic event, one that would wipe out millions, if not humanity as a whole. This statement follows a public warning by one of Anthropic’s top researchers, Jacob Coxon, who resigned from the company, claiming that “without international coordination we will incur a risk of causing human extinction.” Asked by NBC News whether he “truly believed that AI can kill us all in less than a next decade,” he was blunt and clear: “Yes, I do. And it’s not just me. Many people working in the industry, including … executives, senior researchers, all genuinely believe that there’s a substantial probability that this technology could kill everyone.” Hundreds of other AI researchers and trainers have been sounding the alarm. In August, more than 1,300 employees from top AI companies signed a letter requesting regulation to “pace the frontier” — that is, slow down the development of new, more powerful models — but mass media largely ignored the issue until Coxon’s viral
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With ‘Blood-Soaked War Criminal’ Set to Land in Mamdani’s NYC, Calls Grow to Arrest Netanyahu Romm acknowledged that Netanyahu is shielded from arrest during his official UN visit and that sitting heads of government generally enjoy immunity from national courts, but argued that those protections do not eliminate the United States’ underlying authority to prosecute him under federal war crimes and genocide laws.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-arrest-calls-2026 Trump administration is examining whether a diesel export ban is feasible, Treasury secretary says “We’re examining whether it’s feasible in terms of the overall refining capacity and whether a full or partial ban would work,” Bessent said at a bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the United Nations. Trump said Tuesday he’s advocated for a diesel export ban during internal administration deliberations. The president said a decision would quickly be made “one way or another” on whether to implement a ban.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/trump-diesel-export-ban-urkaine-russia-iran.html FBI investigates breach of jobs website as hackers claim ‘very sensitive data’ stolen The claims could not immediately be verified, and an FBI spokesperson declined to comment further. An email to an address associated with the organization was not immediately returned. In its message, ShinyHunters said it would give the bureau one week to correct or remove what it says are false allegations in an FBI public service announcement from May that described the organization as a “cyber criminal group specializing in large-scale data breaches and extortion”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/23/fbi-jobs-website-hacked Florida fund sues New York Times over alleged anti-Israel bias, demands records The State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA), which oversees the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund, and the National Center for
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Israel election committee bars Arab party lists, MKs from October vote The decisions are not final and must be approved by the Supreme Court, which has overturned most such disqualifications in previous elections. Israel’s Central Elections Committee is made up of lawmakers, with seats allocated to parties based on their share of the vote in the general election. … The committee said Abu Shehadeh had supported armed struggle by an enemy state or "terrorist organisation" against Israel and rejected Israel’s existence as a Jewish and "democratic state".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-committee-bars-arab-party-lists-mks-october-vote Iran and US held direct UN talks, with Islamic Republic's terms to reopen Hormuz hardening Multiple Gulf officials told Middle East Eye that their countries were trying to arrange a "bump-in" between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, but the logistics were complicated. Qatar took the lead among Gulf states in facilitating the meeting between Witkoff and Araghchi, a Gulf official told MEE. Gulf states were pressing for US-Iran talks at the UN in the days before the General Assembly. Both Qatar and the UAE called for de-escalation and engagement with the Islamic Republic over the weekend.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-and-us-held-direct-un-talks-islamic-republic-terms-reopen-hormuz-hardening Pro-Palestine Activist ‘Close to Death’ on Hunger Strike in Tunisian Prison Wael Naouar, a father of two who was detained in March alongside three other Flotilla organisers, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri and Nabil Chennoufi, initiated his hunger strike in protest of the prolonged detention the Sumud 4 have endured without trial.
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[IWW Archives] The Secret History of Tree Spiking In May, 1987, sawmill worker George Alexander was nearly decapitated when a tree-spike shattered his sawblade at the Cloverdale Louisiana-Pacific mill in northern California. This grisly accident sent shock waves through our community, and eventually led Northern California Earth First! to renounce tree spiking. Southern Oregon and Southern Willamette Earth First! joined us, as well as a few Earth First!ers from Stumptown, but that's all. The rest of Earth First! still endorses spiking, and many of them even today react to our no-spiking policy by denouncing us as traitors and dismissing us as wimps, without ever considering the reasons for our actions. Because of this, because there are so many new Earth First!ers who don't know this history, I think it is time to re-examine the issue of tree-spiking. A few years ago, George Alexander and his wife Laurie agreed to talk to me about the 1987 incident. The following account is based on my conversation with them.
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-09-20-iww-archive-the-secret-history-of-tree-spiking On the attitude of the Communist Parties towards inter-imperialist contradictions and imperialist alliances: Makis Papadopoulos member of the Political Bureau of the CC of the KKE As it happens every time in History, the period of preparation for a great imperialist war increases the need for a substantive discussion, dialogue and theoretical, political struggle within the ranks of the communist movement, in order to formulate an effective revolutionary strategy. Objectively, critical and complex issues are at the center of the discussion, which require investigation and clear answers from each Communist Party. Issues such as: The attitude of communists towards inter-imperialist contradictions and imperialist wars. The attitude towards existing and emerging imperialist alliances, the Euro-Atlantic and the emerging Eurasian axis. The position towards the socialist character of the revolution in our time, that is, in the epoch of transition from capitalism to socialism. The stance of the Communist Party towards social democracy and the rejection of participation in or support for bourgeois governments, as well as towards cooperation with
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CSX to cut 1,100 rail jobs amid record profits into the billions, union says Transportation giant CSX called the The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division on Sept. 14 and told them they’d be furloughing the 1,100 workers by mid-November, according to general chairman Brian Thompson. Those positions range from $80,000 jobs to management positions in duties that involve safety inspections, rail maintenance and construction.
https://wchstv.com/news/local/csx-to-cut-1100-rail-jobs-amid-record-profits-into-the-billions-union-says https://archive.ph/jHhZK Vermont man convicted in shooting of 3 Palestinian students Jurors found Jason Eaton, 51, guilty on three counts of attempted second-degree murder in the Nov. 25, 2023, attack on Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid in Burlington, Vermont. The verdict came after about two hours of deliberations following a six-day trial.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/21/jason-eaton-convicted-shooting-palestinian-students/91881222007/ https://archive.ph/gse5h Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he’s in pain and still has bullet in his back Garcés Pérez said by phone during a news conference Monday that he was shot near the clavicle and that he has not received the medical attention he needs. He said doctors did not remove the bullet because it was close to his spine and ICE was pushing the hospital to release him into the agency’s custody in a hurry.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelan-man-shot-ice-texas-says-s-pain-still-bullet-back-rcna598999 Coca-Cola sued over alleged pollution flowing into Lake Washington Post too long. Click here to view the full text. News 9/22/26 News Anon 3.0 22-09-26 18:44:45 No. 2918468 [Reply]
Thousands protest in France against bill expanding protections for police use of force Politicians, rights groups and other activists joined the Paris demonstration, among them Mathilde Panot of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party. "The police kill already," Panot told the crowd, calling for the bill to be voted down in the Senate. "In the Republic there can be no organised police impunity," she added. "In the Republic, there cannot be a category of citizens who have the right of life or death over other citizens."
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260920-thousands-protest-in-france-against-bill-expanding-protections-for-police-use-of-force https://archive.ph/1plYf Nothing ‘to be ashamed of:’ EU’s center-right clashes with Socialists over far-right votes He added he is against putting up a firewall to keep out far-right forces “because it leads into badly behaving kids on the other side of the fence.” “We should go beyond that. On some issues, I think that they [the far right are relatively sane. On some other issues, there’s insanity,” he added, while insisting a majority of votes in Parliament will involve the mainstream parties.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-eus-center-right-clashes-with-socialists-over-far-right-votes-mika-aaltola/ https://archive.ph/6kkiS UK's Burnham agrees to Saudi request for refuelling support British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he had agreed to a request from Saudi Arabia to provide defensive air-to-air refuelling for a limited time period, a move he described as helping to stabilise the wider region. Riyadh requested support after the Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, intensified their attacks on Saudi Arabia, a new front in the wider war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February.
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Russia: Anti-war communists reject elections amid war and political repression As Russia holds parliamentary elections from 18 to 20 September, two smaller communist parties have rejected the electoral process, arguing that it offers no genuine alternative to the policies of the ruling capitalist class and the ongoing imperialist war in Ukraine. The Organization of Communists and the Russian Communist Party (Internationalists), both of which emerged from a split in the Russian Communist Workers' Party over its support for Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, are not participating in the elections. Unlike the parliamentary Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), both organizations oppose the imperialist war and reject the political course of the Russian government. In a statement issued on 10 September, the Organization of Communists denounced the electoral process as taking place amid mounting economic difficulties, political repression and restrictions on anti-war activity. It accused the ruling class of directing growing resources toward the war while working people face deteriorating living standards and shrinking democratic freedoms.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/09/russia-anti-war-communists-reject-elections-amid-war-and-political-repression.html How Zohran Mamdani Helped Germany’s Left Party Win in Berlin In Berlin’s state elections, Germany’s most leftwing party Die Linke has won a significant victory – the biggest in its recent history. It could also mean that the city gets its first mayor from the party since the fall of the Berlin wall. That’s partly due to the apparently infinite influence of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose team helped supercharge the German left with the infectious positivity he’s world famous for. But it’s also down to policy – and in particular a long-standing pledge to expropriate housing from the private sector for public supply in a city where rents have soared by 70% in the last decade. Die Linke’s Elif Eralp, a human rights advocate sporting a ‘rent cap’ necklace, may well become Berlin’s first anti-capitalist mayor since reunification. The daughter of Turkish immigrants, she led the party to a clear victory in Berlin’s Sunday election, taking 26%
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ICE Quietly Begins Firing Purge After Ignoring Everyone’s Red Flags ICE officials struggled to process the massive surge of applicants after the Trump administration dangled a $50,000 signing bonus in front of people’s noses, hoping to entice Americans to join the legion of officers tearing families apart. In August 2025, an ICE whistleblower wrote to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General warning that the hiring surge had “overwhelmed” the agency, and that applicants were being cleared for duty “without fingerprints, identity verification, or credit checks.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/215433/ice-firing-purge-after-ignoring-red-flags https://archive.ph/A9DJU US TV networks suspend White House pool coverage over Trump media ban The ban left CNN unable to fulfil its duties as Monday’s White House designated pool broadcaster. A coalition of four other networks – ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC, who with CNN form part of a “pool” which take turns providing television coverage of presidential events – said they would not cover events in solidarity with CNN.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/21/trump-tv-networks-white-house-pool-coverage Charges to be dropped against 5 pro-Palestinian protesters at Stanford after mistrial =
The defendants — one current and four former Stanford students — were among thousands of demonstrators arrested on campuses nationwide in 2024 during protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Most criminal charges were dismissed, but the Stanford students went to trial in Santa Clara County.
https://apnews.com/article/stanford-propalestinian-protest-fc0522d837c5584d94d76a0508bb907e Key ally urges Trump to back US farmers amid anger over rising prices Republican senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa called on the US president to place an embargo on diesel exports this weekend and help farmers
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The Mary Wallopers’ ‘Paddywhackery’: an antidote against pessimism In a recent interview with Spill Magazine, Charles Hendy – founding member of the Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers – had this to say about creating folk music today: “People like to think folk music is really people just sitting around singing ‘Kumbaya’… The folk songs of antiquity up until now are not like that. Folk music is not meant to be soft. It is hard music. It is social, political and it is aggressive. We want to inject a bit of that into it.” Ironically, today it’s the leaders of the official ‘left’ who are doing little more than sitting around singing ‘Kumbaya’ while the world burns. The Mary Wallpapers, meanwhile, are releasing their third and best album to date, Paddywhackery. This album isn’t just a criticism of capitalism, but a powerful antidote against pessimism – a clarion call to the working class and the oppressed to recognise their collective power.
https://communist.red/the-mary-wallopers-paddywhackery-an-antidote-against-pessimism/ The Uprising Wastes a Good Class-Struggle Story In 1381, more than a hundred thousand poor English people rose up demanding an end to serfdom. During the uprising, they killed a coterie of hated government officials, and, in turn, the fourteen-year-old King Richard II massacred thousands of them. The best-remembered figure of the English Peasants’ Revolt is one of its leaders, John Ball, whose speeches and sermons captured the spirit of what would eventually, centuries later, develop into socialism. “When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” he famously asked, meaning that in the Garden of Eden, the Bible’s first people labored only for their own sustenance, with no concepts of lords and serfs. As a socialist and fan of medieval period pieces, I was excited to see the new film The Uprising, which dramatizes the English Peasants’ Revolt and stars Andrew Garfield as a fed-up farmer-rebel. The subject matter has the makings of a thrilling class-struggle movie — and indeed, Garfield and director Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, two films in the Bourne trilogy, and Bloody Sunday) promoted the movie as a tale of resistance to oligarchy. As The Hollywood Reporter writes, “The Uprising feels strikingly of the moment. M
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Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans The Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the Solar for All funds in August 2025 after President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law passed in Congress a month earlier, with Administrator Lee Zeldin calling the Biden-era grant program a “boondoggle.”
https://apnews.com/article/climate-solar-for-all-trump-biden-lawsuit-0bae42fcf85906ea48ee0f6f4d6c83a9 Trump signs bill imposing sanctions on Russia and giving him more power to levy tariffs But it also gives Trump wide leeway over its implementation, including which countries could face tariffs, and which tariff rates could be imposed. It also gives the president sweeping discretion over whether sanctions provisions can be waived against certain countries. Controversially, it allows Trump to impose tariffs of up to 100% on buyers of Russian energy, including China, and on other countries that help Moscow to evade sanctions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/trump-signs-russia-sanctions-bill Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei’s proposals in agreement.
https://apnews.com/article/antitrust-lawsuit-ai-slowdown-anthropic-openai-spacexai-google-960af4308161eaf4ed13c383b0ce1c1b FBI warned immigration authorities about fake tradwife dating profiles The FBI’s Chicago field office distributed a memo in February warning the country’s law enforcement agencies that a small grou
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Iran says conditions to re-engage in talks, end war sent to US via Qatar “Our conditions are an end to the war on all fronts, the release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade,” said Rezaei, who took over as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council about a month ago. “It is in Washington’s interest to accept these conditions. Trump’s threats will not achieve any results. We are prepared for a decisive war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/19/iran-says-conditions-to-re-engage-in-talks-end-war-sent-to-us-via-qatar https://archive.ph/CSeRK Türkiye revokes Iranian Bank Mellat’s operating license after 44 years Bank Mellat is one of Iran’s major financial institutions, with about 47.9 quadrillion Iranian rials ($34.8 billion) in total assets as of March 2026, according to Iranian financial-data provider Shakhesban.Bank Mellat has faced sanctions and financial restrictions from the U.S., European Union, and U.K. over its alleged links to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. The U.S. Treasury first designated the bank in October 2007, accusing it of providing financial services to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/turkiye-revokes-iranian-bank-mellats-operating-license-after-44-years-3228437?s=1 https://archive.ph/xuGxy Flames, smoke seen near Riyadh airport; Houthis claim attacks on Saudi capital Reuters video and photographs showed a huge pillar of black smoke rising in the area, with the airport highway, main terminal building and other facilities in the foreground. At one point in the video, flames were visible rising from behind what appeared to be fuel tanks. The Houthis did not specify what they had targeted in Riyadh, but said they had also attacked an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil export hub.
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