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Decline And Fall

December 30, 2025 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. , , ,
At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physically unfit for military service, as are 77 percent of American youth. The Liberal Party, like the Democratic Party, while it acknowledged the need for reform, did little to address the economic and social inequalities that saw the working class condemned to live in substandard housing, breathe polluted air, be denied basic sanitation and health care and forced to work in punishing and poorly paid jobs.

Trump Canceled Temporary Legal Status For More Than 1.5M Immigrants

December 30, 2025 Ariana Figueroa, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Washington — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due to President Donald Trump’s aggressive revocation of legal immigration. It’s the most rapid loss in legal status for immigrants in recent United States history, experts in immigration policy told States Newsroom. The Trump administration curtailed legal immigration by terminating Temporary Protected Status for more than 1 million immigrants and ending Humanitarian Parole protections for half a million more individuals.

China Imposes Sanctions On Dozens Of US Weapons Manufactures

December 30, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. , , ,
On Friday, December 26, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against US weapons manufacturing firms and their high-level officials over Washington’s decision to allow billions of dollars of arms sales to Taiwan. The 20 weapons manufacturing firms sanctioned by China include companies like Northrop Grumman Corporation, L3Harris Maritime Services, and Boeing. At least 10 senior executives related to these firms, including Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, have also been sanctioned. The sanctions freeze all the movable and unmovable properties in China belonging to these firms and individuals.

Hunger Strike Supporters Hit Labour Headquarters

December 30, 2025 Willem Moore, The Canary. , , ,
According to the media distributor, the Aftershock, a group calling itself ‘Justice for the Hunger Strikers’ has targeted Labour’s HQ in London. As we reported on 27 December, hunger striker Teuta Hoxha has lost the ability to stand, meanwhile Heba Muraisi, is losing the ability to speak. The hunger strikers have endured 18 months in prison without trial. As a consequence of this and other instances of alleged mistreatment, they recently launched legal action against justice secretary David Lammy. Notably, these activists were imprisoned before the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

Bolivia: General Strike Led By Miners’ Union Continues

December 30, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
An indefinite general strike called by the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) has now entered its second week. The strike has been in response to Supreme Decree 5503, a law condemned by unions and peasant organizations for being part of an “IMF-imposed adjustment” that is deteriorating the standard of living of the working population. Miners have been at the forefront of these protests. Since last Monday, December 22, thousands of miners have been marching on La Paz. Wearing helmets and carrying tools, they have set up roadblocks and blockades around Plaza Murillo, the central square of the national government.

Scientists: Public Engagement, Pressure Key To Reducing Nuclear Risks

December 30, 2025 Jon Letman, Truthout. , , ,
Faster, stealthier missiles, accelerated weapons development, and the threat of an unrestrained nuclear arms race, set against the backdrop of a withering arms control regime, point to a worsening global nuclear threat as 2025 comes to a close. On top of that, just before meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping in October, President Donald Trump abruptly, and very imprecisely announced in a social media post, “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”

America’s Loss Of Science And Loss Of Virtue

December 30, 2025 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. , , ,
The Trump administration has issued a death warrant for science. This kills one of America’s greatest most productive avenues to GDP growth. Simple-minded people are determining the future course of the country. After all, science is foundational to America’s economy. This legacy for America is destined to be the antithesis of what’s found in the writings of Marcus Aurelius’ world-famous notebooks, filled with words of wisdom about leading an honorable life, Meditations, one of the world’s great pieces of literature by one of the wisest minds of the ancient world Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) the 16th emperor of Rome collected thoughts in notebooks, now considered one of the most important Stoic texts of all time and common text for America’s universities today.

Whistleblower: US Officials Sidestep Court Order

December 30, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
A whistleblower alleges that a federal immigration agency has prematurely closed numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records in order to fake that it is complying with a court order.  On December 19, 2025, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) submitted a whistleblower disclosure from a “disabled Marine Corps infantry combat veteran,” who has served over a decade at the United Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) National Records Center (NRC).  The disclosure was submitted to U.S. senators that chair the Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committees. It refers to the whistleblower as “Frank Armstrong."

Starving The Safety Net

December 30, 2025 Kalena Thomhave, Dollars and Sense. , , , ,
At the start of November, while the government was shut down due to a lapse in federal appropriations, millions of families across the United States abruptly lost access to food assistance. For the first time since the creation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly called “food stamps”) in the 1960s, the federal government chose not to fund benefits during a shutdown. The Trump administration broke with decades of precedent, followed by both Democratic and Republican administrations, by allowing the nation’s largest anti-hunger program to grind to a halt.

Basic Income In Canada Is Closer Than You Think

December 30, 2025 Nancy Wilson, Rabble. , , ,
Although few people would explicitly declare that poor people are morally deficient, our welfare systems are nonetheless designed around suspicion rather than support. Like many social assistance policies, opposition to guaranteed income is driven by a deep-seated fear of fraud — of “freeloaders” benefiting from the taxes of hard-working, morally upright citizens. Our collective delusion that we live in a meritocracy is operationalized into a punitive framework that rationalizes who deserves help and who does not. As a result, we spend enormous administrative effort policing eligibility, while leaving many people without adequate help.

Managing Water Differently: Algeria Facing Hydrological Extremes

December 30, 2025 El Habib Ben Amara, Resilience. , , ,
What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve and develop? Across the country, the same paradox is emerging: prolonged droughts and declining groundwater levels, punctuated by sudden, devastating floods. In a matter of hours, entire neighborhoods in Algiers, Oran, Béjaïa, or Skikda can be submerged, while a few weeks later, water restrictions are imposed. This contradiction is not merely a climate problem—it reveals a deep disruption between Algerian territories and their natural water cycles.

Chile’s Failure To Bury Neoliberalism Led To Pinochetista President

December 29, 2025 Francisco Dominguez, Morningstar Online. , , , , ,
Stunning, though expected, on December 14, a majority of Chileans (58 per cent to 41 per cent) elected far-right Republican Party candidate Jose Antonio Kast as president for the 2026-30 term, defeating the Communist candidate Jeannette Jara in the second round. A strong admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship, Kast is also an open supporter of Argentina’s Javier Milei and Donald Trump, and maintains close links to the Trump-affiliated Heritage Foundation. His victory presents a significant opportunity for US imperialism.

The Gaza Genocide Was Not A One-Off

December 29, 2025 Ramzy Baroud, Scheer Post. , , ,
The architecture of extermination: Why the Gaza genocide is premeditated and repeatable. Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants. Let us pretend that nearly eighty years of relentless massacres were not a prelude to this moment, and that Israel had never before sought the physical destruction of the Palestinian people as outlined by the 1948 Genocide Convention.

Germany: Imprisoned ‘Palestine Action’ Activists Face Harassment

December 29, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
For years, Palestine activists in Germany have looked to Britain with a sense of astonishment. The state that promised Palestine to Zionist settler colonialism in the 1917 Balfour Declaration is scarcely less pro-Israel than the Federal Republic of Germany, with its so-called Staatsräson (‘reason of state‘) that proclaims unconditional solidarity with Israel – albeit without ever having been codified into law. And yet, solidarity in Britain appears – at least from this vantage point – to be more vibrant, broader, and above all more effective.

Eastern Europe: Resistance Grows To Militarism, Israeli Arms Production

December 29, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
As Western European elites scramble to maintain influence amid waning backing from the Trump administration and growing domestic opposition to pro-militarization, anti-people policies, countries in Eastern Europe are faced with a different set of dynamics. Starting from distinct political and economic conditions, movements across the region are organizing against expected cuts and deepening ties with Israel’s genocidal regime, while also pushing back against local elites seeking to profit from the EU’s expanding armament agenda. Peoples Dispatch spoke with Oana Uiorean and Vlad Mureşan of the Elbit OUT! campaign in Romania about the specific challenges facing left movements in the region and efforts to build strong Palestine solidarity campaigns in Eastern Europe.
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