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The West German guerrilla Red Army Faction (RAF) kidnapped the businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer on this day in 1977. But did you know that Schleyer was a former SS officer—a fact often ignored in the historical narrative?
Schleyer’s anti-communist views, his Nazi past, and subsequent position as a Christian Democratic Union party member made him a target for the RAF. The RAF used Schleyer to blackmail the West German government into releasing imprisoned RAF members. After all the imprisoned members were found dead in their jail cells, Schleyer was killed by the kidnappers.
The RAF urban guerrilla group emerged from the 1968 student movement and remained active until 1998. Due to the RAF’s numerous activities against the West German state and its NATO allies, they became increasingly prominent during the 1970s. The infamous picture of Schleyer being held by the RAF has since become one of the most iconic pictures of the 20th century.
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Argentina's police arrested an ex-member of the Marxist underground organization Red Brigades, Leonardo Bertulazzi, who has been on the run from Italy for decades. Read here how he went from armed struggle during Italy's tumultuous "Years of Lead" to being arrested in Argentina on the orders of the right-wing libertarian President Milei.
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Despite the George Floyd uprising against the police and white supremacy, the US police are only getting worse. 2024 is on track to be the deadliest year on record for police killings. Read on about the state of police brutality today.
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Catastrophic wildfires plague Brazil, further exacerbated by climate change. Last month, the number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest reached over 38,000, the highest number since 2010. Amidst extreme heat and a record-breaking drought, 2024 is shaping up to be the worst year for Amazon fires in the past two decades.
In the first seven months of this year, the Brazilian Amazon saw a 76% increase in fire hotspots compared to 2023 during the same period. Locals have already seen the rainforest shrink by around 20%. Furthermore, fires in the Pantanal wetlands have been 40% more intense due to climate change, a recent report showed.
While not entirely uncommon for the dry season, this year’s record number of wildfires across the South American country were only made possible through worsening climate change.
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Police in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, launched a violent crackdown on workers protesting the disbandment of the Public Works Department (PWD), a move that threatens the jobs of 10,000 workers. At least 17 protesters were arrested, and police deployed tear gas in an attempt to quell the unrest.
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets, blocking roads and voicing their outrage at the government’s decision, which has sparked fears of mass layoffs and deepening uncertainty over their livelihoods. The protests, now stretching into several days, mirror the intensity and violence of previous PWD protests.
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Police arrested activist Greta Thunberg in Copenhagen, Denmark during a protest against Israel’s extermination war in Palestine. The 21-year-old Thunberg, along with a group of about 20 other activists, blocked entrances to buildings at Copenhagen University, leading to a series of arrests. In a previous statement on social media, Thunberg commented that the university was being protested because it refused to implement an academic boycott of Israel.
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The US stole a Venezuelan government aircraft and has now brought it to Florida. Venezuela has slammed the move as “piracy” and condemns the US for pressuring other governments to collaborate in their continuing attempts to remove President Maduro through high-intensity campaigns of sanctions and coup attempts.
The Falcon 900EX aircraft used by President Maduro was in the Dominican Republic. DR authorities gave US agents in the country permission to illegally enter and seize the plane for sanctions violations.
This is part of the US sanctions regime and campaign of maximum pressure against Maduro that includes a $15 Million bounty for those who hand him in or give information leading to his arrest.
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the Dominican Republic for allowing US agents to carry out these kinds of seizures on their soil.
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Mass starvation on a scale not seen in decades looms over Sudan, Africa’s third-largest country. As the war rages on—already claiming an estimated 150,000 lives—the UN has confirmed a full-blown famine, a rare declaration it has made only three times in the past 20 years.
In May, the Clingendael Institute warned that hunger and related diseases could kill over 2 million people in Sudan by the end of the year and up to 10 million by 2027.
The RSF continues to gain ground, advancing deeper into southeastern Sudan with a relentless offensive that has displaced 700,000 people. In total, 10.4 million Sudanese—one-fifth of the population—are now forcibly displaced.
Sudan’s strategic position, with access to the Red Sea and influence over the Suez Canal, makes it a focal point for international powers to control one of the world’s most critical trade routes. Iran, Russia, and Egypt have been arming the SAF, while the UAE is backing the RSF.
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BREAKING: Israeli occupation forces shot and injured two journalists in the occupied West Bank. The two journalists from the WAFA news agency were traveling in a car in Kafr Dan town near the city of Jenin when the Israeli forces opened fire at them.
The journalists were attempting to reach an area in the village where the invading Israeli forces had besieged a house for several hours.
In an attempt to uproot resistance in the West Bank, the Israeli military has been concentrating its attacks on Jenin, an epicenter of resistance located in the northern West Bank.
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While journalists in Gaza have paid their lives as a price for showing the crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, Western media did not do their ethical obligation. German media have reported on the war on Gaza mainly using Israeli military propaganda. Now, a new survey revealed that people have lost trust in German mainstream media.
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Germany executed its first deportation flight to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover amid a wave of harsher asylum laws and reforms designed to lower the threshold for what qualifies as “severe deportations.”
A Qatar Airways charter jet carrying 28 Afghan offenders from various German states took off for Kabul, organized by Germany’s federal Interior Ministry.
These unprecedented deportations, which dismantled the moral barriers for such actions, followed a deadly ISIS-claimed knife attack and, more notably, emerged as the far-right AfD party surged with its anti-migrant agenda.
The liberal coalition under Chancellor Olaf Scholz seems to be changing its tone, likely attempting to steal some of the wind from the AfD's sails.
In Thuringia, the AfD won its first-ever regional election over the weekend. Nationwide, recent federal polls show the AfD as the second-strongest party with around 17.5%, trailing only the right-wing conservative CDU/CSU coalition—and the trend is rising.
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Israeli occupation forces deliberately targeted Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin. The soldiers shot live bullets at the journalists, chasing them with military bulldozers to prevent them from covering the attacks carried out by the invading forces.
At least two journalists were injured while Israeli forces continued to raze the streets and destroy infrastructure. The attack on Jenin city entered its sixth day as part of a large-scale operation targeting the entire occupied West Bank.
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For the first time since Nazi rule, a far-right party has won an election in Germany. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has come out as the strongest and second-strongest in the regional elections of the eastern German states of Thuringia and Saxony. In both states, the party has gained over 30% of the vote.
Chairman of the AfD in Thuringia is Björn Höcke, who, even according to a court ruling, can be classified as a fascist. Höcke not only represents the fascist wing of the AfD but is also the party’s most influential politician. He is no less known for his infamous speeches with allusions to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
While the AfD made significant gains in regional elections, polls also show it advancing in nationwide approval ratings. According to the latest polls, the AfD is set to be the country’s main opposition party, creating an uncertain future for the upcoming 2025 federal elections.
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On this day in 1945, legendary communist and anti-imperialist Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam’s independence from France following the formal end of WWII and a successful rebellion against Vichy French and Japanese forces.
However, despite the joyous scenes in Hanoi on September 2, 1945, trouble lied ahead. US President Harry Truman refused to recognize Ho Chi Minh’s declaration of independence, the French refused to leave, and Vietnam was divided by the victorious allies.
It would take decades and millions of deaths following wars against the French, Americans, and Chinese for the Vietnamese to win their true independence. Vietnam’s Independence Day has since been celebrated with annual parades honoring the resistance forces in Hanoi.
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Shots were fired near the Israeli General Consulate in Munich, Germany, during a shootout between the police and an unidentified suspect armed with a long gun. The broad-daylight confrontation ended swiftly when officers shot down the gunman. Moments before, an unknown suspect had opened fire against the nearby Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
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Hamas has fully agreed to a deal made by independent Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin, who was negotiating on behalf of the families of the remaining Israeli hostages.
Baskin, famous for his key role in securing the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Gaza in 2011, arranged the deal through private back channels with Hamas.
Despite Hamas accepting the deal without any changes, the Netanyahu government and the US ultimately rejected it.
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The US proves it is indeed capable of doing more than “calling for an investigation.”
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The US Embassy is organizing a coup against Honduras, says the country’s President Xiomara Castro. She stated in an emergency press conference: “The plan to destroy my democratic, socialist government and the next electoral process is underway.”
Yesterday, Honduras’s Foreign Ministry denounced US pressure over its support for Venezuelan President Maduro.
Following that, a video from 2013 was published by local media allegedly showing a known drug trafficker meeting with the brother of Xiomara Castro’s husband 11 years ago. The government denies that there are any links or financing between the persons in the video and the governing party.
The government of Honduras sees this series of incidents as preparation for an attempted coup against the government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appeared with a map of occupied Palestine with the West Bank fully annexed. Although this is not the first time Netanyahu or Israeli ministers removed the West Bank or Gaza from maps, the reality is that the map reflects the Israeli government's policies and plans never to allow a Palestinian state to exist.
In the last months, the Israeli government has changed how the West Bank is governed, changing it from being under the military to being under a civilian body led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Smotrich is spearheading the annexation of the West Bank by approving and supporting the expansion of settlements and land confiscation.
Some European countries, alongside the US, have imposed sanctions on some settlers and organizations facilitating settlement expansions. But actual actions to stop Israel's illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank are yet to be seen.
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A libertarian politician, an ally of Javier Milei, has been arrested for participating in a pedophile ring in a case that has shocked Argentina.
While Milei has long promised to fight a “culture war” against “gender ideology,” supposedly to protect children, a senior local politician belonging to his libertarian coalition has been detained for the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material for a transnational pedophile ring.
German Kitzcka, a member of the regional parliament of Misiones for the “Activar” group, who were local surrogates for Milei’s “Libertad Avanza,” was found by police to be in possession of 603 files containing child abuse.
Kitzcka and his brother even had a YouTube channel performing magic tricks for children, which police believe was part of their strategy for grooming their victims.
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On this day in 1940, revolutionary writer Eduardo Galeano was born. His pioneering writing style both exposed the Global North’s exploitation of Latin America and centered the voice of his continent’s most oppressed peoples, inspiring generations of revolutionaries, artists, and writers. Read on.
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“We’ll stay here in our land.” — Listen to this Palestinian confronting Israeli military bulldozers that are on a rampage destruction mission in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
Israeli military bulldozers have brought massive destruction during its ongoing invasion of the West Bank. They are using armored military bulldozers to raze the streets and destroy infrastructure across the invaded cities and refugee camps.
More than 70% of Jenin city’s streets were completely destroyed to a depth of one and a half meters, which has also led to the destruction of water and sewage networks, as well as communication and electricity cables, according to Jenin municipality.
Israeli forces have killed at least 23 people since the start of its military operation in the West Bank. They have been invading cities and refugee camps, mainly in the north, while carrying night raids across the entire West Bank. At least 150 Palestinians have been arrested since the operation started.
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On this day 25 years ago, the Lebanese communist resistance fighter Soha Bechara was released from captivity at the Khiam torture and interrogation center where she had been detained for ten years; six years of those years were spent in isolation detention.
She was jailed for an attempt to assassinate Antoine Lahad in 1988, the head of the South Lebanon Army, an Israeli-backed proxy militia that terrorized South Lebanon during the Israeli occupation. Bechara is a Lebanese icon, and posters featuring her were seen all around downtown Beirut in the early 1990s.
Bechara joined the Lebanese Communist Party in 1982 when she was 15—the year that Israel invaded Lebanon—and was involved in various resistance activities. Bechara shot Lahad twice with a 5.45 mm revolver, once in the chest and once in the shoulder.
Bechara was released from Khiam in 1998, following international pressure. Two years after her release, the Israeli occupation of Lebanon ended, and Khiam was turned into a museum.
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The long-awaited polio vaccination campaign has kicked off in the Gaza Strip. The vaccination drive aims to vaccinate over 90% of all children across all regions of the enclave by September 12. Gaza’s Health Ministry launched the campaign with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The campaign comes just a little over a month after a polio epidemic was declared in Gaza. Last month, Gaza’s first polio case was confirmed in a 10-month-old baby.
While “humanitarian pauses” have been partially implemented, Israeli attacks largely continue, including in areas where the vaccination campaign has started. Israel has ignored any calls for a ceasefire.
The WHO said that the time agreed on for the vaccination campaign is “unlikely to be enough” to achieve adequate coverage. “Ultimately, the best vaccine for these children is peace,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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“Solidarity forever!” chant teachers in Kenya who are on strike against low pay and increasingly poor conditions imposed by the neoliberal government of Prime Minister Ruto. Schools across the entire country have been shut down as the mobilization enters its second week.
These strikes come just a couple of months after historic mass protests defeated a regressive tax law, part of the IMF-imposed austerity policies.
The teachers’ union (KUPPET) has stated that the government is effectively cutting teachers’ pay by refusing to promote teachers who have seniority. In a press conference yesterday they stated, “We are witnessing a conspiracy to make teachers of this country irrelevant, to reduce them to casual laborers”.
These backdoor pay cuts from the government are another attempt at complying with IMF austerity demands, a consequence of a giant 2021 loan which the IMF is now demanding payment through tax rises on the poor, spending cuts, and privatization.
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Tens of thousands of Libyans nationwide marked the 55th anniversary of the 1969 “Al-Fateh” revolution on Sunday night. The revolution, led by the Free Officers Movement, brought Muammar Al-Gaddafi to power. Celebrations were concentrated in Western Libya, including cities like Bani Walid, Zliten, and Tripoli. In Zliten, four young Libyans were allegedly killed by pro-NATO gunmen for commemorating the event. These gatherings are unprecedented in post-Gaddafi Libya, where public praise for Gaddafi has been banned.
Under Gaddafi, Libya saw significant sociopolitical progress: the unique Jamahiriya system, planned pan-African Gold Dinar, free education and healthcare, subsidized housing, and the highest Human Development Index in Africa. Gaddafi's 2011 death by NATO-backed forces marked the dismantling of these achievements.
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Israel’s invasion of the occupied West Bank continues as it sees a surge of resistance operations across the area. While the invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin enters its sixth day, more overnight raids spread across other cities, camps, and villages. Israel’s invasion of the West Bank has killed at least 23 people, with dozens injured. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested since the operation started.
Over the weekend, a series of resistance operations targeted Israeli forces, with the most significant being in Hebron. The Hebron operations mark a significant change, as most previous operations were centered around the north of the West Bank. This will lead to more deployment of Israeli forces in the south, which could potentially relieve both the northern West Bank and Gaza.
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a state election for the first time, emerging as the strongest force in Thuringia with 32.8% of the vote. This political earthquake triggered immediate mobilization, with hundreds of anti-fascists taking to the streets across Germany, targeting AfD headquarters and election parties.
Protests erupted in at least five cities, with anti-fascists setting off pyrotechnics and donning disguises. In Saxony, the AfD secured the position of the second-strongest party. Nationwide, recent federal election polls show the AfD as the second-strongest party with around 17.5%, trailing only the right-wing conservative CDU/CSU coalition.
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Happy birthday to Roger Casement, one of the leaders of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising! Starting out as a loyal servant of the British Crown, his experiences later turned him to the Irish freedom cause. Unfortunately, due to British efforts to stain his reputation, it wasn’t until 1965 that Casement entered the pantheon of the 1916 martyrs. Read on.
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