A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie observes: “Trump’s numbers are tanking and there...
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New World Order Against Tariffs: SCO Development Bank as an Anti-Sanctions Tool?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) 2025 summit in Tianjin produced a series of outcomes that, although modest in appearance, are strategically significant. The most prominent developments were the agreement in principle to establish an SCO Development Bank,...
Black Liberation activist Assata Shakur, 78, dies in Cuba after decades in exile
Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.
Trump tariffs and GST rate adjustments
The adjustment in the Goods and Services Tax rates that has just been announced to take effect from September 22, does not as such inject any purchasing power into the economy.
‘An Egregious Abuse of Power’: Trump Orders Troops to Portland, Ore; OKs ‘Full Force’
“This unilateral action represents an abuse of executive authority, seeks to incite violence, and undermines the constitutional balance of power between the federal government and states,” Oregon lawmakers wrote.
The real violent extremists are the freaks who run the U.S. empire
The genocidal, ecocidal, omnicidal nightmare we see before us in our world today is what it looks like when the violent extremists are in charge.
President Petro claims that the U.S. violates International Law by revoking his visa
The head of state of Colombia assures that the prohibition of entry into the U.S. for the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to speak before the eightieth session of the UN General Assembly, as well as this revocation of his visa, demonstrate that...
Iowans protest following kidnapping of Des Moines superintendent by immigration Gestapo
In an attempt to smear Roberts as a dangerous fugitive, ICE claimed it found a loaded pistol in his vehicle.
Fisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part IV)
The US blockade brought much suffering to Lake Maracaibo communities, but people responded and resisted by deepening their bonds of solidarity and cooperation.
The corrosive ideology of the Trump administration
This is the corrosive ideology of this administration. Lie, suppress, or deny our nation’s history. And we have years more of this corrosive form of government.
The absurdity of Paracetamol
The vertigo and harshness of the events that overwhelm us leave, as a result, the dissolution of evil: it is erased by habit, it becomes trivial, a nonsense.
China is greening the Global South but Net Zero needs $7 trillion/yr
China is establishing a world leadership role via green energy as the consummate bargaining tool.