Month: August 2025

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Palestine

10,000 march in NYC to stop the genocide in Gaza

August 19, 2025 Stephen Millies
‘March for Humanity’ hears Chris Smalls and Mahmoud Khalil Aug. 16 — People came from up and down the East Coast to New York City today to protest the deliberate starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. […]
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U.S. / NATO war

Consequences of the Alaska summit

August 19, 2025 Nahia Sanzo
Aug. 17 – Saturday was a day of reactions to the Alaska meeting, to the images it left behind, and to its implications, as the various actors tried to adapt to the new situation created […]
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U.S. / NATO war

List of ‘kidnapped’ Ukrainian children for sale? No, a regional database of Lugansk orphans

August 19, 2025 Andrea Lucidi
Aug. 14 – In recent days, several Italian media outlets [as well as other Western media – SLL] have circulated a piece of news that quickly spread online: in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), a […]
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Labor and strikes

Flight attendants vow to fight as gov’t, Air Canada try to crush strike

August 18, 2025 Lev Koufax
The federal government of Canada thought the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike was over on the afternoon of Aug. 17, when it ordered 10,000 striking flight attendants and cabin crew members back to work.  The […]
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Cuba

The Cuban Revolution inaugurates the centennial of Fidel’s birthday

August 18, 2025 Andrew Matatag
On Aug. 13, friends of Cuba were invited by the Cuban embassy to celebrate the 99th birthday of Fidel Castro. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on Aug. 13, 1926. His 100th birthday will be […]
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Cuba

Mariela Castro on Cuba’s path to LGBTQI+ rights

August 18, 2025 Mariela Castro Espín
Following is a talk by Mariela Castro Espín on July 29 at the ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos / Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples) House of Friendship, in Havana, Cuba, […]
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U.S. / NATO war

The Alaska summit and the crumbling proxy war in Ukraine

August 17, 2025 Gary Wilson
The carefully staged handshake between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the tarmac of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Aug. 15 wasn’t just a photo op. Big business media fixated on the summit’s brevity […]
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In the U.S.

Trump’s racist takeover in Washington, D.C., is just the beginning

August 17, 2025 Stephen Millies
Pentagon preparing “reaction force” to crush protests Donald Trump’s Aug. 11 news conference announcing his hijacking of Washington, D.C.’s police force was a racist tirade of lies and threats. The wannabe dictator claimed that the […]
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China

Taiwan’s residents reject being Washington’s proxy in its war against Socialist China

August 17, 2025 Chris Fry
The Pentagon’s war plans against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have hit a snag. On July 27, Taiwan’s residents voted to reject the ruling secessionist Democratic Peoples Party’s (DPP) bid to recall 24 opposition […]
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Political Prisoners

Dialogue with a political prisoner of today, part 1

August 17, 2025 Jay Burton, Adé T.W. Jackson, Esq., and Scott Scheffer
“We don’t get how we are all tied to the prison industrial complex. Nobody’s out.” – Mariame Kaba, interviewed by Mahogany L. Browne, 2019 Having a conversation with a political prisoner would be rare under […]