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Cuba Has a Rich History of International Solidarity. US Wants to Extinguish It.
Washington has long deployed economic pressure to challenge Cuba’s fiercely independent social and foreign policies.
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Gaza Reconstruction Is Hindered as Israel Restricts Aid and Building Materials
“The children ask me when we will return to a proper home, and I have no answer,” said one displaced resident.
Trump Admin Sanctions Flotilla Activists, Baselessly Claims Ties to Hamas
Israel wants to “criminalize solidarity work,” said one of the activists who was sanctioned.
Trump-Backed Candidate Unseats Massie in $33 Million Primary House Race
Trump's endorsed candidate, Ed Gallrein, won the primary race by more than 10 points.
From Asia to the Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice
The only reliable products of US airpower are devastated civilian populations and suppression of internal movements.
Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”
Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats.
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US Employers Spend Over $1.5 Billion a Year to Fight Union Efforts, Study Finds
“Union avoidance law firms have constructed an industry providing counsel on union busting,” the report says.
Trump Demands Firing of Parliamentarian Over Disagreement on Ballroom Funding
Elizabeth MacDonough has served as Senate parliamentarian since 2012, presiding over Democratic and Republican terms.
Battle Over Medication Abortion Threatens to Revert US Back to 19th Century
SCOTUS has temporarily paused a Fifth Circuit Court ruling that echoed the Comstock Act of 1873, an anti-obscenity law.
Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy
Curbing access to the ballot brings us closer to the far right’s techno-feudalist dream of a “Dark Enlightenment.”
UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Directly Impacted Tribes
Some Native leaders say the omission is not an oversight — it is a structural problem baked into the framework itself.
Trump’s War on Iran Is a Symptom of Unchecked US Military Power
Virtually everyone killed by the US during the “war on terror” has been a person of color, writer Norman Solomon says.
Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again
The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.
For Palestinians, the Nakba Isn’t Just History. It’s Also Our Present.
Some Palestinian doctors argue there’s no PTSD in Gaza because the traumatization of genocide and survival is ongoing.
Iran
After Months of Failed Votes, Senate Finally Advances Iran War Powers Resolution
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Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States
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Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran
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Rep. Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block House Iran War Powers Resolution Yet Again
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What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About US Empire
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Iran’s Missile Arsenal Still Intact, Reports Say, Contradicting Trump’s Claims
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Trump’s Justice Department Subpoenas News Outlets Over Iran War Coverage
“Today’s segregationist politics arrive dressed in procedural language, judicial reasoning, and carefully constructed talking points designed to make injustice sound administrative rather than ideological.”
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Voting Wrongs
SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Rights Act Puts a Third of Black Caucus Seats at Risk
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Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance
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Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow
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Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act
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Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating”
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Trump Allies Circulating Draft Order to Declare National Emergency on Elections
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I’ve Witnessed Trump Weaponize Georgia Ballots for Years. Then He Stole Mine.