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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.

Ukraine: Negotiations At A Standstill, The War Progresses

December 29, 2025 Moon of Alabama. , , , ,
The speed of progress Russian troops are making has increased. During the last weeks several significant Ukrainian cities – Kupiansk, Siversk, Pokrovsk, Myronograd, Huleipole – have fallen into Russian hands. The Ukrainian command seems to ignore this reality. It took weeks to admit that Siverks had fallen. It still claims to hold ground in Myrnograd and Huleipole. It loudly claims a successful counteroffensive in Kupiansk while its troops there get bombed to smithereens. Meanwhile Russia has widely succeeded in de-energizing Ukraine. Electricity in Ukraine’s big cities is limited to less than 12 hours per day.

World Bank Miracle: How To Show Rising Poverty As Declining!

December 29, 2025 Utna Patnaik, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
Of late, there have been several academic papers and media write-ups on the World Bank’s 2025 claim of steeply declining extreme poverty in the world, especially in Asia. It would be wonderful if this was true, but it is not true. This claim is spurious, arising from a statistical legerdemain that the World Bank and governments have practiced for many decades, ignoring all criticism. For half a century, they have repeatedly underestimated poverty line expenditure until by now their poverty lines are so incredibly low that they do not permit human survival.

The Lie We Keep Telling About Wounded Knee

December 29, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. , , ,
Today marks the 135th anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee, which occurred during the wintry week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1890. Nine days before the massacre that left hundreds of Sioux men, women and children dead, an obscure weekly newspaper in South Dakota published an editorial following the death of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull. In the opinion piece, L. Frank Baum, publisher of the Saturday Pioneer, wrote: “The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled.”

Understanding The Relationship Between Zionism And Fascism

December 28, 2025 Alana Lentin, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Despite the mutual admiration of Zionists and fascists, both historically and in the present, it is generally considered unhelpful to characterize Zionism as fascism. However, viewing fascism from the perspective of the Black radical tradition, with its emphasis on racialism, colonialism and imperialism, rooted in supremacist ideas of western civilization, helps make fascism a useful concept for understanding Zionism. In popular definitions of fascism it is detached from nationalism and associated most strongly with authoritarianism. Israel’s self-presentation as a liberal democracy, the result of a national self-determination project, and even an anticolonial Indigenous manifestation, conflicts with dominant ideas of what fascism is.

US Bombs Target ISIL In Nigeria: What’s Really Going On?

December 28, 2025 Shola Lawal, Al Jazeera. , , , , , ,
The United States has launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups it claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) in Nigeria, President Donald Trump said on Thursday. The unprecedented Christmas Day strikes came after weeks of accusations from Trump and top Republicans about an alleged “Christian genocide” they say has been enabled by the Nigerian government. They represent the first known direct US military intervention in the troubled, conflict-racked country. Neither side has shared precise information about the identity of the targets struck and the results of the strikes.

Too Big To Heal

December 28, 2025 Helen Santoro and Joel Warner, Portside. , , ,
America’s health care spending is so out of control that the country’s economy is becoming dependent on it. According to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce, economic growth swelled in the third quarter of 2025. While that’s theoretically good news, an ever-larger share of that consumer spending is devoted to health care costs: Over the previous three months, expenditures on health care increased more than on any other goods or services. Health care spending, in fact, contributed more to the country’s gross domestic product growth than any other personal expenses.

When The USSR And China Saved Humanity

December 27, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , ,
2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in World War Two. Unfortunately, the history of this extremely important conflict is not very well understood today. It was not the United States and its Western allies that defeated fascism in WWII. That is a myth that is promoted by Hollywood movies. In reality, it was the Soviet Union and China that defeated fascism in WWII. However, their heroic contribution was later erased by the West, when the US waged the First Cold War against the global socialist movement. The vast majority — approximately 80% — of Nazi casualties were on the Eastern Front, in the Third Reich’s savage, scorched-earth battles against the Soviet Red Army.

Somaliland: How The World Reacted To Israeli Recognition

December 27, 2025 Rayhan Uddin, Middle East Eye. , , , , , ,
Israel's decision to become the first country to recognise the breakaway region of Somaliland has been condemned by a string of countries, while the US president said he was not ready to immediately follow in Israel's footsteps. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, announced on Friday that he had signed a mutual declaration to recognise Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state. Somaliland has been part of the unified Somali Republic since 1960, but declared its independence in 1991 and established a de facto state.

Honduras: Electoral Coup Was Unprecedented Fascist Operation

December 27, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
Ricardo Salgado, the Honduran secretary of Strategic Planning, said that the country suffered a new form of coup d’état following the proclamation of right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura as the president of Honduras by the two CNE councilors who belong to the Honduran bipartisan system: Ana Paola Hall García and Cossette Alejandra López. On December 24, the two aforementioned CNE officials declared Asfura the winner of the November 30 elections, without completing the special recount or resolving the challenges filed in response to the numerous irregularities reported.

How Education Changed In One Year Under Trump

December 27, 2025 Nirvi Shah, The Hechinger Report. , , ,
Even with a conservative think tank’s blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal government’s role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized this year for America’s schools and colleges.  Or what might be yet to come.  “2025 will go down as a banner year for education: the year we restored merit in higher education, rooted out waste, fraud and abuse, and began in earnest returning education to the states,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon told The Hechinger Report. She listed canceling K-12 grants she called wasteful, investing more in charter schools, ending college admissions that consider race or anything beyond academic achievement and making college more affordable as some of the year’s accomplishments. 

‘What Is The Christian Word In The Face Of Genocide?’

December 24, 2025 Jeff Wright, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Last month, 300 people—led by the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Palestine— gathered in Bethlehem to launch the second Kairos Palestine document: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide. 140 Palestinians and 160 internationals spent the day unpacking the theological and political descriptions of the conditions that Palestinians face and attending to the indigenous church’s call for Palestinian resistance and Christian solidarity. The conference was hosted by Kairos Palestine, the largest Palestinian Christian ecumenical nonviolent movement for freedom and justice.

Germany: Critics Of The Government Are Losing Their Bank Accounts

December 24, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
The German Communist Party (DKP) announced earlier this month that several associated bank accounts (including that of the party executive) will be terminated as of December 31, 2025. The reasons for the account termination remain unclear and the act in itself raises more questions than answers. The case has also drawn attention to a trend in Germany that appears to be resurfacing more and more: attacks on the material foundations of actors who criticize the German government, and especially its policies on war.

Who’s The Real Outlaw At Sea?

December 24, 2025 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, CODEPINK. , , , , ,
The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific under the banner of “drug enforcement,” killing over 100 people whose identities the U.S. has obscured. At the same time, the Trump administration has threatened a naval blockade of Venezuela—a sovereign country with which the United States is not at war. How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for intercepting ships in the Red Sea to counter Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
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