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The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy

Mark Harris Common Dreams
Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza.

Labor’s “Barbarossa” Moment

Bill Fletcher Jr. Liberation Road Notes
An edited and expanded version of remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. offered at “A Strategy for Labor, A CUNY Panel Discussion of Honor of Merle Ratner,” December 12, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu Is on Trial for His Political Life

Uri Weltmann Convergence
The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of genocide has attracted global attention. But in Israel, he faces a trial for corruption to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that could mean the end of his political career.

This Week in People’s History, Dec 18–24

Portside
Residents of a concentration camp in the U.S. in 1943 Legalized Xenophobia Then and Now (1944), Gramsci’s Dialectic of Hope (1929), ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ (1969), Mass Deportations by the U.S. – in 1919?, CIA Lawlessness Exposed (1974), Will Boeing Ever Come Clean? (2019), Giving Peace a Chance (1914)

Trump and the Latin American Left

Ociel Ali López NACLA
Progressive governments in Latin America are not as united today as they were a decade ago. How prepared are they to navigate the onslaught of a second Trump administration?
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