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  • Reclaiming Socialism in Canada’s NDP Leadership Race

    Last April, Canada’s parliamentary left suffered the worst electoral blow in its history — losing official party status and winning just seven seats in the House of Commons. With Mark Carney’s Liberals now riding high in the polls, and whispers of a snap election as early as this spring, the New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada’s

  • Washington’s War on Cuba Is Collective Punishment

    In 1960, then deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs Lester Mallory laid out the argument for waging economic war on Cuba. The US government, he wrote, should deny “money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Mallory also wrote that the

  • Keir Starmer’s Position Is Weak, but So Is the British Left

    When struggling football managers get a vote of confidence from their board, it often comes with an unspoken “for now.” In a similar vein, the clock for Keir Starmer is definitely ticking, despite pledges of support from politicians eager to replace him as prime minister. The bigger issue, however, is whether or not any of

  • For Migrant Workers in Spain, Gender-Based Violence Is Rife

    Aged eighteen, just three months after giving birth to her second child, Dalisay emigrated to Spain. Leaving her daughters in the care of her sister in the Philippines, she started a job as a live-in domestic worker in Madrid, sending money home each month. Not long after moving into her employer’s family address, the husband

  • Mark Zuckerberg Wanted to Keep in Touch With Jeffrey Epstein

    Among many others, there are three themes that run through the Jeffrey Epstein disclosures released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently: that the rich and powerful people who denied having any connection to the billionaire pedophile were often a lot friendlier with him than they let on; that these members of the elite are,

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  • Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota

    Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been referring to public demonstrations against ICE in Minneapolis as an “insurgency,” a term typically used to refer to violent, armed rebellion, especially when it involves irregular forces opposing a larger, well-equipped military or state power. On the surface, the The post Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Citizens and Government Actions in Economics, Trade, and Financial

    Read Part 1 and 2. A. Trade Measures & Market Signaling Economic pressure can be applied instantly and scaled without violence. Immediate Measures (within a week) Government boycott US goods and services A very powerful signal which over time will be felt. Targeted tariffs on selected U.S. goods Symbolic but high-visibility sectors send a clear The post Citizens and Government Actions in Economics, Trade, and Financial appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Laura Dogu and Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela

    Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.” What the LA Times fails to add is that it was precisely Dogu’s job to create crisis and volatility in both The post Laura Dogu and Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela appeared first on Dissident Voice.

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  • “I Love You, So Will You Fix This for Me?”

    The first time I noticed it was last month, when he asked for a hug. And not just any hug. “I could use a HUGE MAGA hug!” he wrote. “I love you. Do you STILL love me?” The love note was adorned with little hearts—and a request that I send him some money. I didn’t respond.

  • Russell Vought Raided USAID Budgets He Helped Gut to Pay for His Own Security

    Security detail for President Donald Trump’s budget chief and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is being paid for by what’s left in funding for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.  There isn’t much left of USAID after Trump and Vought worked together to dismantle the agency

  • Ohio Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Essentially Ban Solar and Wind Projects

    This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not just federal headwinds that threaten to constrain renewable energy development. State and local restrictions on solar and wind are spreading across the United States, too. Few states highlight this fact as well as Ohio does. The Buckeye State makes

  • I Went to Minneapolis to Bear Witness—and to Make Amends

    From the moment I learned of “The Call,” an appeal to religious professionals across the country to come to Minneapolis to join with local clergy and bear witness against aggressive and now deadly ICE operations in that city, I knew that I had to go. Our mission would also involve shielding vulnerable neighbors, community members,

  • How the NAACP Signed Up to Abolish ICE

    In the summer of 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the stage at the NAACP’s 47th annual convention in San Francisco. Speaking at the precipice of the Civil Rights Movement, King cautioned that “the guardians of the status quo are always on hand with their oxygen tents to keep the old order alive.” Over the

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  • First Gaza, Then the World: The Global Danger of Israeli Exceptionalism

    While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of exception. This Israeli exceptionalism is the very essence of the instability that plagues the Middle East. The concept of the state of exception dates back to the Roman justitium, a legal mechanism for

  • How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny, Chapters 5 & 6: Timelines and Organization

    As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are

  • Civilizational Petrification: from Cuba to Gaza

    There are periods in history when the concept of civilization captures the attention of historians and social scientists. About a century ago, Owald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, and Pitirin Sorokin were the most distinguished names in this field. At the end of the last century, postcolonial studies and Samuel Huntington, with his Clash of Civilizations, marked

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  • A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran

    The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country on a journey to exile on January 16, 1979. Less than a month later, on February 11, the popular revolution triumphed and closed the book of monarchy. The day the Shah left was perhaps the happiest day in my life up to that point. I was at my university campus, Tehran Polytechnic, when the news arrived. I lit a cigarette, another bad habit of teenage years, and left the campus aimlessly just to join the joyous crowds. I had never seen an entire nation so exceptionally jubilant, deeply ecstatic, profoundly euphoric. People were holding up the front page of various newspapers, all of which read, in the largest font that could fit the page, the words “Shah Raft” (The Shah is Gone!). More The post A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • Epstein and the Professors

    When Jeffrey Epstein began harvesting professors for his dinners masked as seminars, he was drawing from a bountiful crop. It’s the rare professor who can’t be compromised by money. Add celebrity, fine food, first class travel and the whiff of decadence -- irresistible. So what if the person offering these things is a convicted sex offender? Epstein served his time, says the liberal professor; he paid his debt to society and it’s right to move on. Those young women with Slavic accents serving canapes and massaging Epstein’s neck are probably in college, or at least seniors in high school -- aren’t they? More The post Epstein and the Professors appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy

    The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations or tragic mistakes; they belong to a longer and darker history that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People once named with chilling precision. In earlier periods of American turmoil, such killings were called lynchings, acts “carried out by lawless mobs, although police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.” Today, this violence extends well beyond the bullet and the baton. It takes form in the expansion of prison camps, what Thom Hartmann rightly calls concentration camps, the war on immigrants, and the routine assault on Black and brown lives made disposable through policy, indifference, and neglect. More The post MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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  • When Did Starvation Become an Acceptable Tool of Foreign Policy?

    On September 15, 1970, Richard Nixon infamously instructed the CIA to “make the economy [of Chile] scream” (CIA Director Richard Helms actual note of the conversation can be seen here). But “the economy” is an abstraction; the reality of economic warfare is a starving population. Sanctions and embargoes are euphemisms for blackmail and hunger. In