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Rage Against the ICE Machine
Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn. Screenshot via X By Sonali Kolhatkar A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21, 2025. Appearing as though she was on her way from work—the woman wore a navy blue blazer and brown shoes and carried a large handbag—the “polka-dot dress wo

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Oct 296 min read


The Powerful Who Stand with Israel
Trump and Netanyahu with a number of US officials at the White House, September 29, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad On 26 October, Caroline Willemen of Médecins Sans Frontières stated that Israel continues to use the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza as “means of pressure”. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza has not improved significantly”, she told the press, “as water and shelter shortages persist and hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in tents

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Oct 284 min read


Israel Tried to Destroy Gazans’ Peoplehood; It Failed
For ordinary people, survival, continuity, and self-assertion are the ultimate signs of victory against Israel, a country that does not hesitate to use genocide for temporary political gains. By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza , particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a blend of emotions that centers on two core principles: grief and defiance. Grief has characterized life

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Oct 254 min read


US threats can’t stop our growing relations with Central America: China reacts to visa restrictions
The US has imposed visa restrictions on Central American nationals for their links with China in its latest move to pressure countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to break ties with the Asian powerhouse. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun -- image via the Chinese MFA By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday, October 21, that his country has formally lodged serious protests a

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Oct 243 min read


The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela
The island that has lived under US rule since 1898 is once again being used as a staging ground for US militarism, this time for Washington’s latest “war on drugs” narrative. U.S. Marines with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, during an exercise on Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico, September 6, 2025 -- Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Michelle Ellner, Common Dreams When President Donald Trump announced that the

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Oct 235 min read


Does Brazil Have an App That Can Upend Digital Finance?
Washington’s unease is rising as Brazil’s Pix bypasses U.S.-dominated payment networks. The country’s digital payment revolution may soon be impossible to contain as other countries adapt their own models. By John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) investigate Brazil’s “ attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices ,” followed by the launch of 50 percent tari

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Oct 227 min read


British Communists ask: Who does Starmer support?"
Trump and Starmer, September 25, 2025 -- Number 10 https://www.flickr.com/number10gov/, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons "Labour should quit its competition against Reform UK and the Tories to see who can sink the lowest in their grovelling to President Trump, their connivance in Israeli genocide and their attacks on human rights and democratic liberties", Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party's executive committee last weekend. "We have a Prime Minister who shows more conce

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Oct 212 min read


From Baghdad to Caracas: a Washington manual on sanctions and war
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it. Trump on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Manolo De Los Santos Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly confirmed that he authorized the CIA to carry o

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Oct 217 min read


Trump Baselessly Calls Colombia’s Petro ‘Drug Dealer’ as US Bombs Another Boat
The leftist Colombian president retorted that “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the UN, September 23, 2025 -- Fotografía oficial de la Presidencia de Colombia from Colombia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams The United States carried out another deadly attack on a boat it claimed was being used by a left-wing Colombian revolutionary grou

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Oct 204 min read


A escalada militar de Trump contra a Venezuela repete o modelo da Guerra do Iraque
Com a suspensão do diálogo entre os EUA e a Venezuela, o avistamento de bombardeiros B-52 dos EUA no espaço aéreo venezuelano e os novos ataques letais dos EUA no Caribe, os EUA parecem estar acelerando sua marcha rumo à guerra com a Venezuela. Donald Trump walks alongside the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on October 5, 2025 -- public domain image Via Manolo De Los Santos O clima no Caribe torna-se cada vez mais tenso à medida que os Estados Unidos intensificam suas am

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Oct 185 min read


Venezuelan Ambassador Warns Trump Admin Is ‘Bloodthirsty’ Killer ‘Roaming Around the Caribbean’
The Venezuelan ambassador accused the Trump administration of “killing everyone who is on the sea working.” Video screenshot via X By Brad Reed, Common Dreams Venezuelan United Nations Ambassador Samuel Moncada on Thursday delivered a scathing denunciation of US President Donald Trump’s drone attacks on purported drug boats off the coast of his country. While holding up a copy of Thursday’s edition of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian , which highlighted two Trinidadian citiz

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Oct 172 min read


O trumpismo e a paz por meio da força
Donald Trump está se empenhando em deixar como seu legado uma doutrina que, como princípio orientador, busca reposicionar os Estados Unidos como o detentor do poder militar absoluto e do desprezo pelo multilateralismo. Isso se deve ao fato de que os EUA já não são a primeira potência econômica, o que afeta proporcionalmente sua capacidade militar. Trump at a Navy celebration on October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Carmen Navas Reyes De Monroe a Trump, o unilateralismo A

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Oct 175 min read


Venezuela Alerts UN to Imminent Military Threat Amid US Escalation
Samuel Moncada speaks at the UN -- image via video screenshot By Carlos Ron On Friday, 10 October 2025, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada , delivered a serious and urgent warning during an emergency session of the Security Council, asserting that Venezuela’s peace and security —and that of the entire region— is under imminent threat of military aggression by the United States. The War on Drugs Pretext Hostility from Washington towar

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Oct 165 min read


Trump’s military escalation against Venezuela repeats the Iraq War blueprint
With the suspension of dialogue between the US and Venezuela, the sighting of US B-52 bombers in Venezuelan airspace, and the further lethal US strikes in the Caribbean, the US seems to be accelerating its drive towards war with Venezuela Trump aboard the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Manolo De Los Santos The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the dece

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Oct 165 min read


Trumpism and Peace through Strength
Donald Trump is striving to leave his doctrine as his legacy to the world, which, as a guiding principle, seeks to reposition the United States as the holder of absolute military power and to disparage multilateralism. This is because we are no longer dealing with the world’s leading economic power, and this proportionally affects its military capacity. Trump at the UN, September 23, 2025 -- public domain image By Carmen Navas Reyes From Monroe to Trump, Unilateralism The fam

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Oct 145 min read


India’s American Dream in Tatters
Modi and Trump at the White House, February 15, 2025 -- public domain image By Srujana Bodapati The last couple of months have exposed the humiliating realities of the subordinate alliance that India has been gradually sliding into with the U.S. over the last three decades. The imposition of 50 percent tariffs on Indian exports to the U.S., calls on the European Union to impose 100 percent tariffs on India, the revocation of the U.S. sanctions waiver for the operation of Iran

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Oct 134 min read


SACP denounces Maria Corina Machado Peace Prize, US aggression towards Venezuela
South African Communist Party condemns United States aggression against Venezuela, denounces Nobel Peace Prize on a sworn apartheid Israel supporter, an imperialist coup agent in Venezuela against a democratically elected government Saturday, 11 October 2025 : - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the military aggression perpetrated by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The US military attack on Venezuela is a clear violation of int

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Oct 133 min read


Israeli withdrawal, captive for prisoners swap, and entry of aid: What’s in the Gaza ceasefire deal?
The entry of a minimum quantity of aid to besieged Gaza, the release of all Israeli captives in return for Palestinian prisoners, the...

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Oct 125 min read


Trump chooses war over diplomacy in the Caribbean
After killing 21 people in a series of airstrikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela, the US closes all diplomatic channels and prepares...

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Oct 115 min read


‘Peace’ Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize
As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished...

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Oct 104 min read
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