Mar 26, 2025

1. The accidental inclusion of the Atlantic Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg in US war plans that launch missiles in Yemen provokes outrage from the Democratic Party and the media— not over the criminal war of aggression or the war crimes being planned, but because the discussion took place outside secure military channels

2. A test case to determine whether the government can... put you in jail for the things you say:  Live updates from Momodou Taal's trial to avoid being seized and deported by the US Trump administration

3. Through its employment of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (now nominated to head the US National Institutes of Health), Stanford University's medical school is playing a key role in legitimizing an anti-science public health policy, which has claimed countless lives

4. Recent reports indicate that various German industrial companies, including Volkswagen, want to produce more military goods to profit from Germany's increasing military spending

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5. German big business "declares war" on the working class

6. The theme of filmmaker Vivian Qu's Girls on Wire may resonate within narrow circles in the upper classes, but it is no basis to artistically enrich our understanding of the lives of anyone

7. Unless stopped, a contract being imposed by a federal arbiter on US mail delivery workers will lead to tens of thousands of job cuts, more facility closures and the end of USPS as a public service

8. As has become par for the course, the approach of April 2, dubbed by Trump as “liberation day” when his regime will take action via “reciprocal tariffs” against all the countries, friend and foe alike, that have been “ripping off” the US for decades, is surrounded by confusion

9. Under pressure from the European Union and NATO, Spain's pseudo-leftist government conforms to increased military spending plans

10. Staff reductions and other cuts at the US Social Security
Administration—driven by Musk and Trump’s DOGE— result in chaos for retirees and the disabled, who depend on monthly benefits checks from the government agency

11. On May 6, the Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party, a section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, will field candidates in districts across Sri Lanka

12. A US federal judge issues a temporary restraining order
preventing ICE from abducting Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Columbia University student and legal permanent resident in the United States

13. Once Australia's looming election is out of the way, the next government, whether headed by Labor or the Liberal-National Coalition, will soon announce the necessity to cut social programs to boost military spending

14. The decision by a Hong Kong firm, CK Hutchison Holdings, to sell Panama Canal port assets to the American-based multinational investment management corporation BlackRock sparks a furor in China

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