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22+ min ago (559+ words) Popular liberal podcaster Jennifer Welch argued slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk "justified his death" with his comments on gun ownership. Before sharing their thoughts, Welch played a clip of new CBS News boss Bari Weiss interviewing Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk earlier this week. Weiss asked what she would say to people who said Charlie Kirk "had it coming." "You're sick. He's a human being," Erika Kirk said. "You think he deserved that? Tell that to my three-year-old daughter." Welch then said the premise of Weiss' question was that Kirk's critics had justified his death. She said the person who really did that, though, was Kirk, based on what he said. "The person that I heard that justified his death was him," Welch said about Kirk. "He's the one that said on tape that if school kids die but it means…...

36+ min ago (523+ words) We are sleepwalking into disaster We cannot simply bemoan the murder of 15 Jews celebrating Hanukkah at distant Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, this weekend, picked off one by one by a couple of hate-filled killers." That won't cut it. Not anymore." The dead include a rabbi, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old who showed up to pet the baby goats on the first night of the Festival of Lights. People of conscience must do more than just feel terrible." Now it must. We are sleepwalking into disaster." I wonder when the West will awaken and realize that antisemitism is a rising menace that does"untold carnage when fully unleashed. At the moment it is growing by leaps and bounds, with little check on its spread. We see the weakest of responses, always coming after the fact." Australia is a case…...

40+ min ago (362+ words) Without producing a shred of evidence, factory management and the police cited an alleged prior mental health diagnosis to justify Cao's detention. His coworkers, however, denounced the confinement as blatant political persecution for his leadership role in the strike and for his growing authority among them. The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) restoration of capitalism over the preceding years had wreaked havoc on workers' living standards, turning them into a source of cheap labor for international capital. The closure and privatization of state-owned enterprises destroyed millions of jobs and resulted in the theft of wages, pensions and other benefits." Chinese workers responded by mounting a wave of militant protests, leading to over 120,000 recorded labor disputes in 2000. Any working class leaders, like Cao, who threatened to upend the pro-CCP ACFTU and its labor peace with management, were inevitably targeted for defending the…...

41+ min ago (597+ words) If there were any doubt that climate change is real and having a devastating impact on millions of people, this year's hurricane season should put that doubt to rest. Only those with a powerful material interest in doing so will continue denying'the reality, along with those who have fallen victim to the ensuing right-wing, anti-science propaganda. What is particularly remarkable is their intensity in both wind speed and quantity of rainfall. According to NOAA, their "Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE Index. " reflects the strength or wind speed of each storm and how long it will last. For 2025 the total ACE is 132.9, which would indicate an above normal or very active season." In the Pacific,Typhoon Ragasa(a.k.a. Typhoon Nando), reached sustained wind speeds of 270 km/h (165 mph), classifying it as a Category 5 tropical cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Over three days,…...

42+ min ago (627+ words) These formulations describe reality. They correspond to the situation in Gaza, where Israel has massacred tens of thousands of civilians since October 2023, and to the assessments of numerous international human rights organisations. With this resolution, Linksjugend has not moved "to the left; it is merely reacting to the enormous political opposition within the population, above all among young people, who are becoming radicalised and are being attacked for this by all the establishment parties and the media. Hardly had the resolution been adopted when almost all major media outlets'from the tabloid'Bild'to leading newsweekly'Der Spiegel'to the pro-Green'taz'launched a hysterical campaign against the youth organisation. The resolution was denounced as "antisemitic, and the congress was portrayed as a hotbed of extremist activities, where pro-Israeli delegates were allegedly openly threatened. However, at the forefront of this right-wing campaign was not the extreme right…...

57+ min ago (1412+ words) Claudia Cinatti and Juan Chingo One year into Donald Trump's second term, the international situation is marked by renewed tendencies toward war, crises, and revolution (and counterrevolution). This is most acutely and prominently expressed in the genocide committed by the state of Israel in Gaza. Also contributing to this trend are the days of mass mobilizations in the United States against Trump'like the No Kings mobilizations, which brought millions into the streets'as well as radicalized vanguard actions against immigrant deportations and ICE, such as those in Los Angeles and Chicago. Foreign policy remains a source of dispute and division within the imperialist establishment, although what unites all Republican and Democratic factions is the strategic objective of containing China's regional and global advance, which both consider the main threat to the United States. "America first," complemented by references to Reagan's formula…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (552+ words) Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments: chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching. Posted by LampLighter at 07:32 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | NEW: Sen. Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. "It is all lunacy," one expert said.[image or embed] Kory has said there's a globally coordinated campaign by public health agencies, the drug industry, and the media to suppress evidence of the medicinal wonders of chlorine dioxide. His book, according to its website, contends that the "remarkable molecule" works "to treat everything from cancer and malaria to autism and COVID." The book jacket features a prominent blurb from…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago (493+ words) With the return of Donald Trump for his second term, diplomacy increasingly resembles a battlefield, rather than a paved road to cooperation, development, and peace. This is not a problem of one US president, but rather the process of internal decomposition of the US empire, which is seeing its hegemony weakened, and is losing its capacity for influence, the possibility of controlling discourse, and its military supremacy. Therefore, it has to resort to the use of coercive power to try to preserve the geopolitical space it has had until now, because moving toward the globalized world and the world government it proposed at the end of the 20th century does not seem to be an option today. The post How The US Empire Creates Chaos To Disrupt Multipolarity appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. Therefore, it has to resort to the blunt…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (277+ words) The Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network (ROA) and the Regional Articulation of Afrodescendants of Latin America and the Caribbean (ARAAC), Afrodescendant organizations born from anti-imperialist social change processes and anti-neocolonial struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, carry the dignity and sovereignty that our African Ancestors entrusted to us as a living imprint of the self-determination of peoples. Latin America and the Caribbean have suffered, throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, invasions, territorial dispossession, and targeted assassinations of Latin American and Afrodescendant leaders. The post Afrodescendants: Casting Off Illusions, Preparing For Struggle appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. And calling on the people of the U.S. to act on behalf of human rights. We also call upon our Afro-Venezuelan people to defend our sovereignty and independence, and to uphold our right to self-determination as a nation. We urge our people to prepare…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (136+ words) A Donald Trump-associated legal ally on Sunday warned the Supreme Court about a "very bright red line" it must not cross in connection with "the most crucial case of the term." Former GOP staffer Mike Davis, who has made headlines for his social media comments in the past, and was rumored to be on Trump's list for attorney general, chimed in on social media about the case he sees as a priority for the top court. According to Davis, "The Supreme Court is going to decide the most crucial case of the term: Whether children of foreign invaders, including Islamist terrorists and other criminal illegal aliens, get birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment." Davis finally concluded with, "This is a very bright red line." ALSO READ: Only one person is waging a war on Christmas...