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The Turtle Island Liberation Front Warning For Activists

December 21, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
The United States has a long history of using informants and entrapment as tools to discredit or to defeat leftist movements. There are other objectives as well, as Black Agenda Report explained in 2010, “The object is to terrify the public into surrendering their civil liberties in a twilight struggle with a mostly nonexistent domestic enemy.” It is important to remember the many examples of state repression as we learn of the arrest of members of a little-known and newly formed organization called the Turtle Island Liberation Front, who stand accused of planning New Year's Eve bombings in Southern California. It is an understatement to say that the charges against them should not be accepted at face value.

Netanyahu To Seek Trump’S Approval For Attacks On Iran

December 21, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly ask US President Donald Trump to greenlight a new assault on Iran to target its ballistic missile program, NBC News reported on 21 December. Citing a person with direct knowledge of the Israeli plans and four former US officials, NBC reported that Netanyahu is expected to present options for a renewed attack in a meeting between the two leaders tentatively scheduled for 29 December at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Miami, Florida. "Netanyahu is expected to make the case to Trump that Iran's expansion of its ballistic missile program poses a threat that could necessitate swift action," the sources told NBC.

A Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Fossil Fuel Sponsorships

December 21, 2025 Ellen Ormesher and Kathryn Clare, DeSmog. , , , ,
Sadler’s Wells, a top performing arts theatre in London, hired one of the United Kingdom’s biggest public relations agencies — and one with close ties to the oil industry — to help it defend a sponsorship deal with Barclays. Brunswick Group — whose clients have included oil giants BP, Shell, and Aramco, as well as Barclays, a major financier of fossil fuel development — drafted a May 23 letter to the Financial Times defending corporate sponsorships of the arts, and signed by Sadler’s Wells and 10 other leading UK cultural institutions, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by campaign group Culture Unstained and shared with DeSmog.

Instacart Settles FTC’s Claim It Deceived Shoppers

December 21, 2025 Al Jazeera. , , , ,
Instacart has agreed to pay $60m in refunds to settle allegations brought by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that the online grocery delivery platform deceived consumers about its membership programme and free delivery offers. According to court documents filed in San Francisco on Thursday, Instacart’s offer of “free delivery” for first orders was illusory because shoppers were charged other fees, the FTC alleged. The agency also accused Instacart of failing to adequately notify shoppers that their free trials of its Instacart+ subscription service would convert to paid memberships and of misleading consumers about its refund policy.

Your Anti-Communism Problem And Mine

December 20, 2025 Charisse Burden-Stelly, Ph D, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , , ,
On November 7, 2025, Donald J. Trump declared Anti-Communism Week 2025 as “a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies.” He proclaimed that communism was a story of “blood and sorrow” and amounted to nothing more than servitude. The following statement is particularly noteworthy: “New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the language of ‘social justice’ and ‘democratic socialism,’ yet their message remains the same: give up your freedom, place your trust in the power of the government, and trade the promise of prosperity for the empty comfort of control.”

US Blockades Venezuela In War Still Searching For An Official Rationale

December 20, 2025 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. , , ,
In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent “kinetic strikes.” Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive.  The empire once spun its domination as “democracy promotion.” Accordingly, State Department stenographers such as The Washington Post framed the US-backed coup in Venezuela – which temporarily overthrew President Hugo Chávez – as an attempt to “restore a legitimate democracy.”

Rail Workers Warn That Merger Would Yield Injury And Even Death

December 20, 2025 Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , , ,
It is no secret that irresponsible rail giants out for profits have visited injury and death on workers and massive destruction to communities around the country. Workers are warning that a new corporate monster railroads want to create via a merger would tear up critical health and safety measures that protect both workers and people in towns thorough which the trains pass. The monster rail monopolies created America’s Gilded Age. Now, the proposed $85 billion merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern seeks to create a new Gilded Age for the 21st century.

Employee-Ownership Mirage: Private Equity’s Latest PR Strategy

December 20, 2025 Nikishka Iyengar, On Labor. , , ,
For an industry that employs roughly 12 million people in the United States, or about 8% of the labor force, the fundamentals of how private equity operates remain notoriously opaque. The big headlines about deals gone wrong — Toys “R” Us collapsing after a leveraged buyout, private equity firms buying up housing stock, Deadspin abruptly shuttering — capture the fallout but often miss the bigger picture of private equity’s cumulative impact on workers and the broader economy. In her new book Bad Company, Megan Greenwell details how these cases are not outliers but rather emblematic of a model that consistently prioritizes financial extraction over worker wellbeing, operational stability, or long-term value. 

Instacart’s AI Experiments Are Costing Americans

December 20, 2025 Lindsay Owens, Inequality. , , ,
Somewhere, a mom taps through her grocery app while waiting in the school pickup line, purchasing a box of Wheat Thins for $5.99. Across town, someone else scrolls through the same grocery app and adds the exact same box of Wheat Thins to their cart. For them, the crackers ring up at $6.99. It is the same item, from the same store, at the same time, but one unlucky shopper is stuck paying a higher price. Neither shopper has any idea this pricing game is even being played. This is not a hypothetical scenario. Increasingly, it’s happening all over the country. Right now, grocery delivery app Instacart is conducting large-scale, hidden pricing experiments on unsuspecting shoppers to determine just how much money they can extract from customers on the groceries they buy to feed their families.

Holiday Shoppers Are Flexing Political Power Through Boycotts

December 19, 2025 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. , , , , ,
For 38 weeks straight, racial justice protesters have been gathering outside a Target in Washington, D.C. to call out the company for suspending its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts, aligning itself with the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI. To put additional pressure on the company, those advocates have been calling for “Target fasts,” in which people completely abstain from purchasing anything from Target. The boycott began in February, following Target’s suspension of DEI efforts, and was initiated by Until Freedom, a nonprofit organization dedicated to community activism and rapid response.

Trump Administration Approves More Than $11 Billion In Arms For Taiwan

December 19, 2025 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. , , ,
The State Department on Wednesday approved a series of arms deals for Taiwan worth more than $11 billion, including multiple types of missile systems and munitions, an announcement that China has strongly condemned. If the sales aren’t blocked by Congress, which is unlikely to happen since there’s virtually no opposition to arming Taiwan in Washington, they would exceed the $8.4 billion in arms sold to Taiwan during the Biden administration, according to The New York Times. According to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the arms deals include a total of eight sales.

Kenya’s President Attempts To Close Budget Gap By Selling Health Data

December 19, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Nairobi — It is hardly uncommon to hear Kenyans complain that their President, William Ruto, is not a head of state so much as a comprador auctioneer of the state’s assets to foreign capitalists. But if one transaction represents Kenyans’ tipping point it is the government’s agreement to effectively sell their private medical records—including biological samples and genetic data—to the Trump administration in exchange for $1.6 billion in healthcare funding over a seven-year-period. 

Half Of The World’s Population Owns Just 2% Of Global Wealth

December 19, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Neoliberal free-market economic policies are creating an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, leaving the majority of the world population with little or no means to make a decent life and almost no power over their destiny, claims the 2026 World Inequality Report published earlier this month. The report claims, “inequality today is not confined to income or wealth; it affects every domain of economic and social life” resulting in the world facing unequal access to basic material resources, gender disparities, territorial divides and climate change, among others.

Another Mass Staffing Purge At The VA

December 19, 2025 Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle, Substack. , , ,
In late November, a mental health leader at a major VA medical center learned about a directive issued to the 18 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) regional offices, known as VISNs (Veterans Integrated Service Networks). Department of Veterans Affairs’ leaders in Washington were imposing lower caps on employee positions nationwide. Directors of local VA medical centers and clinics had a month to decide which vacant positions to eliminate, and which job offers to rescind. None of these identified positions would be filled because they would be swept from organizational charts entirely.

Bill To Block Trump From Launching War With Venezuela Fails

December 18, 2025 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. , , , ,
The House on Wednesday voted down a War Powers Resolution meant to block President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution. The bill failed in a vote of 211-213, with nine representatives not voting. Just three Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill: Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Don Bacon (NE). One Democrat, Henry Cuellar (TX), voted against the legislation. The legislation would have directed the president to remove “United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.”
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