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Tren de Aragua: Reality and Propaganda

By Eligio Rojas, published on the Orinoco Tribune,  March 21, 2025 “Cosmic dust.” This is how President Nicolás Maduro described the defunct Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang whose name echoes across Latin America and beyond as if it was an organization with a central command, camps, and an arsenal. “The Tren de Aragua is cosmic dust in Venezuela; it[…]

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Sednaya: Investigating Syria’s Most Notorious Prison

by Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, published on The Cradle, December 24, 2024 This article is an important counter to some of the horrific propaganda spewed by the Western press (and Al Jazeera) since the overthrow of the legitimate Syrian government in a coup perpetrated by the same entities that waged war on Syria for nearly a decade from 2011 to 2019,[…]

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Trump Rally, Washington Post and Michelle Obama Generate Fake Outrage

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 30, 2024 Liberals love to indulge in performative virtue signaling rather than serious political conviction. Recent events proved that their highest priority is maintaining alliances with the Democratic Party, while dismissing any inconvenient truths that point out their hypocrisy. Nothing reveals the corrupt nature of U.S. politics like a presidential election.[…]

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“Lesser Evilism“ Rises to Crescendo Pitch as “Liberal-Left” Back Genocide Kamala Harris

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 28, 2024 With the polls deadlocked at 48-48 less than two weeks before the US presidential elections, the billionaire ruling rich frantically maneuver to capture a few more votes to swing the result in favor of their chosen warmongering, capitalist, anti-working class, environmentally catastrophic corporate-kept candidates. The electoral choice presented to an[…]

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Palestine Solidarity: Suggestions for Young People… Repressing the Repression and Censorship

by Dr. Karlos Bermann, published on Socialist Action, September 26, 2024 Editor’s Note: Here are more ideas on protesting in the US and ending the US/Israeli war on the Middle East.  With Fall Semester beginning, it’s time to turn the tables on campus repression and censorship! Classes are just resuming and in Virginia we’ve already seen VCU students campaigning against[…]

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The Victims’ Pact: Rawanda and Israel

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 31, 2024 Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Rwanda is the Israel of Africa. The two nations reinforce one another in a longstanding victims’[…]

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NYTimes Ignites China Doping Controversy Leading Into the Olympics

by Rick Sterling, published on Dissident Voice, May 10, 2024 I chose this article because it was full of details about the original incident and following attacks in the New York Times.   Following the Paris Olympics, Rick discussed this issue on the most recent China Report, a podcast from Breakthrough News: Western accusations of doping by Chinese swimmers threaten to[…]

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Leading Israeli Newspaper Blames October 7 Deaths on Zionist Military

by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, July 15, 2024 On July 8, Haaretz, considered Israel’s most influential daily newspaper, published the results of its thorough, in-depth investigation into what actually took place when Hamas attacked Israeli settlements just outside of Gaza on October 7. Their long report concluded that on that date, Israel’s army employed the “Hannibal Directive” —[…]

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Inside China-Focused Congressional Hearings, Panic, Paranoia, and Hypocrisy Reign

by Megan Russell, published on Countercurrents, July 9, 2024 Good to know we have some educated people keeping an eye on our decidedly uneducated congress.  [jb] On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many Congressional hearings aimed at[…]

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