In the U.S.
The Billionaire-Military Complex
Military spending surges while domestic programs face the DOGE axe In case you didn’t notice, the only thing on Trump’s budget so far is military expansion. On April 7, Trump announced plans for a $1 […]
Month: April 2025
Around the world
Fifty years after reunification, Vietnam’s struggle still inspires
On April 30, 1975, the People’s Army of Vietnam broke down the gate of the U.S. Embassy in what is now Ho Chi Minh City. Formerly Saigon, this city was the last stronghold of the […]
Palestine
Trump escalates war against Yemen
Over the past six weeks, the United States has severely escalated its war against the people of Yemen for their resistance against imperialism and their steadfast solidarity with Palestine. U.S. combined naval and air forces […]
Oppressed genders
British Supreme Court rules against trans people
On 16 April 2025, the British Supreme Court decreed that the legal classifications of ‘woman’, ‘man’, and ‘sex’ refer only to biological sex and not gender identity in relation to the Equality Act of 2010. […]
Around the world
U.S. fuels organized crime in Latin America with illegal weapons
The Trump administration’s designation of drug cartels as “terrorists” has opened the door to direct military intervention in Latin America. However, behind this security narrative lies an uncomfortable reality: most of the weapons that fuel […]
China
Tu Youyou, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and the struggle against malaria
Caused by a parasite which is spread by infected mosquitoes, malaria has killed billions during thousands of years of human history. Just in the last century, an estimated 150 to 300 million people died from […]
China
Lab leak: The official conspiracy theory that still gets credit
For a while it seemed like the dubious hypothesis that the virus that causes Covid did not jump from animals to humans, but was released from a Chinese lab, might be fading away. But the U.S. […]
In the U.S.
The ‘fare ain’t fair’ in New York City
Transit fares have gone up 58 times since 1948 April 21 — The Fare Ain’t Fair campaign held a news conference this morning across from City Hall in lower Manhattan, demanding a rollback in subway […]
Around the world
China, Japan, South Korea restart economic talks amid Trump’s tariff war
On March 30, 2025, delegates from China, Japan, and South Korea held their first economic dialogue in five years. This appears to be a reaction to Trump’s tariff war against the world. Only time will […]
In the U.S.
Free them all: protest outside ICE prison in Jena, Louisiana
People traveled from across the Deep South on Tuesday to take part in a protest at an ICE prison in Jena, Louisiana. On any given day, as many as 2,000 people are caged at the […]