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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.”

US Citizens Deported By Zionist State After A Week Of Detention

December 18, 2025 International Solidarity Movement. , , , ,
New York-based Irene Cho and Boston-based Trudi Frost, who were arrested by Israeli forces last Friday, remain in custody at the Givon prison after Israeli courts have summarily denied all their appeals while refusing to examine the evidence proving they have committed no offense. They are expected to be deported later tonight from Ben Gurion airport.  Cho and Frost were arrested on Friday, December 12, in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyer while staying with the Abu Hamam family, which is threatened with forced displacement by military and settler violence.

Trump’s Cuts To Infrastructure Projects Harm Working People

December 18, 2025 The Stand, Portside. , , , ,
You’re going to have the American dream back,” promised then-candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2024. But nearly a year into the President’s  second term, his administration is failing to live up to campaign promises. In fact, the Trump administration’s actions are pushing the dream of economic security and dignity even farther out of reach for working families across the U.S. Countless headlines have rightfully covered executive orders stripping a million federal workers of union rights. They’ve detailed legislation that defunds healthcare and nutrition programs while funneling money to massive corporations and billionaires.

US Economy Becoming Highly Dependent On New, Untested AI Industry

December 18, 2025 C. J. Polychroniou, Truthout. , , , , ,
Over the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become extremely popular in Silicon Valley and is widely regarded as the most transformative technology in the 21st century. In fact, it is already reshaping sectors like education, transportation, finance, health care, media, and telecommunications. Indeed, it is estimated that about 60 percent of jobs in advanced economies may be impacted by AI, which means that it could affect economic growth, employment, and wages. As a result, investment in AI is booming across industries, echoing the late-1990s dot-com era, with investors pouring billions into AI in the hope for a big payday.

US Racist Immigration Policy Toward Haiti Reinforces Imperialism

December 17, 2025 Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
On November 26th 2025, the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti using nearly identical language to the TPS cancellations earlier this year for displaced Venezuelans and affecting upward of 353,000 Haitian migrants. In both cases, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that continued protections were “not in the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States,” affirming U.S. policy abuses redefine their “interests” at a whim.  While the U.S. has long politicized displacement from leftist states like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, casting migrants as evidence of socialism’s failure and selectively offering protections when it aligns with Washington’s broader regime-change goals, Haitian migration has been structurally and historically precarious.
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