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Say No to Trump’s Tariffs and Anti-China Policy

by Mick Kelly, published on Workers World,  March 20, 2025 The following statement has been issued by the Friends of Socialist China U.S. Committee in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement was posted on socialistchina.org on March 14, 2025. The [Donald] Trump administration’s decision to slap additional tariffs on the People’s Republic[…]

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VSN Denounces Trump’s Targeting of Venezuelan Migrants

Statement by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, March 2025 The Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN) denounces President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization as an outrageous and illegal action that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants in the context  of an ongoing effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela. The VSN[…]

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Yemen is Under Attack!

from Independent Activist on Substack, March 16, 2025 Yemen under imperialist attack Yemen once again faces the wrath of American and British racism. The bombs falling on Yemen from both the USA and Britain exposes once again the white anglo saxon imprimatur of using force to pursue its hegemonic designs in West Asia. A country that has been ravaged by[…]

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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for ‘Regime Change’

By John Perry, published on Covert Action Magazine,  Jan 2, 2025 In the words of the United Nations, “human rights” range from “the most fundamental—the right to life—to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty.” These rights are supposed to be “inherent to us all.” But this lofty ambition has[…]

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Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]

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Trump’s Policies Intensify Haiti’s Catastrophes

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, February 28m 2025 Half of the population of Haiti — 5.4 million workers — don’t get enough to eat every day. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 2 million Haitians — the Internally Displaced People (IDP) driven from their homes by political violence — are facing extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition[…]

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Fear and Loathing in the “New” Syria

by Daniel Kovalik, published on Defend Democracy, February 15, 2025 During her confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard was grilled about having been a purveyor of “Putin’s talking points” about the U.S. supporting al-Qaeda in Syria. Of course, Gabbard responded, there can be no doubt about the veracity of such claims. Thus, Gabbard cited the fact that[…]

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Venezuelan President Criticized for Not Being a Proper Dictator

by Roger D. Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, February 2, 2025 Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment’s most demonized “authoritarian regimes” do next? Bloomberg approvingly quotes an opposition-supporting Venezuelan living in Chile that Venezuela’s scheduling of parliamentary and[…]

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From Colonial Theft to Aarian Justice: South Africa’s Long Road to Land Reform

by Jonis Ghedi Alasow. published on Peoples Dispatch, February 10, 2025 South Africa’s Expropriation Act has provoked debate within the country over the enduring racist land tenure model in the country, and has also sparked a diplomatic row with the United States. On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the[…]

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US Remittances to Cuba Suspended; the Hard Side of an Irrational Policy

from Prensa Latina, translated and published by Resumen English, February 10, 2025 Economic brutality against Cuba.  It is incomprehensible except in so far as some will destroy whatever they cannot own.   [jb[ A Western Union statement, cited in digital media, has revealed that, “due to a change in U.S. sanctions regulations,” the financial services company is forced to indefinitely suspend[…]

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