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The permanent war economy never misses a vote
On Jan. 30, the U.S. Senate voted 71-29 to pass an $839 billion fiscal 2026 defense appropriations bill. The measure sailed through with bipartisan backing, including 23 Democrats. Among those voting yes were Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Minority Whip Dick Durbin and Vice Chair of the Democratic Conference Mark Warner. Continue reading
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Sinister Shadow Over West Asia
In late January, the US Department of Justice dumped millions of documents detailing the criminal activities of US oligarch and serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, including his vast rolodex of paedophilic celebrities, financiers, politicians and public figures. The tranche is so vast, independent journalists and researchers have barely scratched the surface yet. But preliminary investigations amply demonstrate… Continue reading
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Cathedrals and Carriers: Marco Rubio’s Civilizational Manifesto for a New Western Century
In Munich, the language of heritage, sovereignty, and renewal cloaks a program of bloc consolidation, industrial recalibration, hardened borders, and unilateral force. Beneath the hymn to Western civilization lies a disciplined strategy to reassert Atlantic primacy in a multipolar world. The question is not whether the West will act — but who benefits from how… Continue reading
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Who decides? NYP nurses challenge forced vote
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian are fighting a battle on two fronts. For four weeks they have stood on picket lines in freezing temperatures demanding enforceable staffing ratios. Now they face a ratification vote forced by their own union leadership — a vote their elected executive committee has already rejected. Continue reading
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From Caracas to El Paso: The Don-roe Doctrine comes home
Feb. 11 — On Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration shut down the sky over El Paso, Texas. The FAA issued a 10-day flight restriction, grounding all commercial, cargo, and general aviation at El Paso International Airport. The agency classified the airspace as “national defense airspace.” It warned that the government “may use deadly force”… Continue reading
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San Francisco educators to begin first district-wide strike in nearly 50 years
Feb. 8 — More than 6,400 educators in the San Francisco Unified School District are set to begin a district-wide strike Monday morning, Feb. 9, following more than a year of failed contract negotiations. It will be the city’s first teachers’ strike since 1979 and is expected to close schools serving roughly 48,000 students. Continue reading
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The Ruling Class is as Ugly as You Imagined
I have tried my best to stay away from the Epstein files (except the emails between Epstein and Chomsky), away from the emails and the text messages, the ugly code language about child rape (hot dogs and chickens), and the cavalier jokes from celebrities about ‘cute girls’ and about trips to Caribbean islands. But clips… Continue reading
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The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth
A handful of figures will be sacrificed – but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don’t apply to the ruling elite Continue reading
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The Minneapolis General Strike: Lessons for the next round
The first week of January, Trump sent 2,000 ICE paramilitary agents into Minneapolis, targeting Somali neighborhoods, along with Hmong and Latine communities, and turning the city into a domestic war zone. Continue reading
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ICE adopts ‘Amazon Prime’ model, turning detention into industrial-scale cruelty
The Department of Homeland Security is transforming immigration detention into an industrial logistics operation — warehouses, transport routes, and processing centers linked like a delivery network — that treats human beings as freight. Continue reading
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Resistance challenges in face of uneven US decline
Tim Anderson argues that US decline is real but uneven: Washington still wields outsized power through finance, propaganda, and militarism, increasingly favoring proxy/hybrid wars as its dominance erodes. He says resistance requires coordinated multipolar strategy, defensive alliances, BRICS-linked financial alternatives, and independent media. Continue reading
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‘When one of us is struck down, a thousand rise’: voices from Minneapolis
Keith Porter. Parady La. Heber Sánchez Domínguez. Victor Manuel Diaz. Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz. Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres. Geraldo Lunas Campos. Renee Nicole Good. Alex Pretti. Some names you know. Others you may not have seen before. All were killed by federal agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and… Continue reading
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Gold tops $5,100 — why it means more war at home and abroad
Paramilitary troopers conduct an ICE operation in Minneapolis in January 2026, part of a massive enforcement surge that left two U.S. citizens dead. As Washington seizes oil abroad, it deploys armed agents against working-class communities at home. Continue reading
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Minneapolis under occupation: the war machine comes home
Jan. 24 — Early Saturday morning in south Minneapolis, masked ICE paramilitaries surrounded Alex Pretti outside Glam Doll Donuts, wrestled him to the ground, and beat him. Then, while he lay motionless beneath them, one agent stood up and fired his pistol repeatedly — more than 10 shots over five seconds. Pretti died at a… Continue reading
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PSL STATEMENT: Another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis — Expand the General Strike!
The day after a historic general strike by the people of Minnesota, federal agents involved in Trump’s mass deportation campaign have committed yet another shocking act of deadly violence. Video footage from this morning shows federal agents in south Minneapolis wrestling a man to the ground, pinning him on the sidewalk, and shooting him multiple… Continue reading
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300 cities answer Minneapolis’ general strike call against ICE
On Jan. 23, 2026, Minnesota was locked in a deep freeze. Temperatures dropped to 16 below zero, with wind chills reaching minus 30. Instead of staying home, more than 100,000 people filled the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Continue reading
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Operation Metro Surge: A Massive Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Begins in the U.S. State of Minnesota
An assessment of the US ICE arrest, detain and deport operation targeting immigrants, the associated fatalities and people’s movements against racial profiling and targeting. Continue reading
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Solidarity actions for Minneapolis general strike spread to 80 cities
Solidarity actions called for Jan. 23 in support of the Minneapolis general strike have spread rapidly across the United States, jumping from “dozens” of cities to at least 80 in just four days. Continue reading
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How Governments and Citizens Can Stop the Trump Regime’s World-Threatening Designs
‘Over the course of Trump’s first term and now a year into his second, the world has witnessed a consistent pattern of actions that challenge the basic long-standing norms of international cooperation, weaken multilateral institutions, and ignore the global norms and legal frameworks established by the UN Charter. Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Trump HUMILIATED – Putin, China & Venezuela CRUSH His Tanker War
Trump messed around and found out says Pepe Escobar as his seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers accelerates a century humiliation for the West says geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar. Russia and China have stepped in to bolster the defenses of Nicholas Maduro and war is rapidly approaching. Trump’s latest failures are about to change everything. Watch… Continue reading
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