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Morgan Ortagus, US President Donald Trump’s deputy special envoy to the Middle East, has sparked criticism for her pro-zionist positions during a press conference in Beirut. She drew a “red line” regarding Hezbollah’s presence in the Lebanese government and pledged support for Israel’s alleged victory in Lebanon.
Who is the new face of US imperialist policies in the Middle East? Read on.
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Countless Yemenis have mobilized across southern provinces in mass protests against worsening living conditions. They are demanding electricity, healthcare, and wages.
The uprising, locally called the “revolution of the starving,” targets UAE-backed forces accused of exploiting Yemen’s resources. Meanwhile, millions continue to suffer economic hardship.
Demonstrations have spread beyond Aden, with unrest growing in several provinces over the past week.
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🟡 NOW: “Our hands are on the trigger,” said Yemen’s Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, adding that they “are ready to immediately escalate against the Israeli enemy if it resumes escalation in the Gaza Strip.”
The comment comes after US President Donald Trump threatened with “all hell” breaking out if the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza aren’t released from Gaza by Saturday noon.
Good land grab VS. Bad land grab
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On this day in 1903, for the first time in US history, workers from different racial backgrounds came together to form a labor union and challenge their bosses. The Oxnard Strike of 1903 demonstrated the effectiveness of a multi-racial working class alliance, proving that class struggle knows no race. Read on to learn about this crucial moment in labor history.
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“If the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.”—Listen to this passage from Nelson Mandela’s address to the Palestinian Assembly in Gaza, a statement that continues to be as relevant now as it has ever been.
Today marks 34 years since his release from prison. Nine years later, the South African anti-Apartheid revolutionary visited Gaza in what many described as a symbol of hope to Palestinians.
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On this day 35 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving 27 years under the racist Apartheid administration in South Africa, more than a quarter of his life. In honor of this day, here’s one of his strongest quotes, underlining oppressed peoples’ right to liberation.
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Ecuador’s leftist presidential candidate, Luisa Gonzalez, came joint first in a “technical tie” with President Daniel Noboa in yesterday’s presidential elections. The two will head to a second round in April amid a climate of persecution and dirty tricks used against the left.
Despite numerous obstacles, including the exile of Rafael Correa, the jailing of party leaders such as Jorge Glas, and the mobilization of state resources for Noboa’s campaign, González was able to pull off one of the highest vote tallies for a Correísta candidate.
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🟡 BREAKING: Hamas’ Qassam Brigades spokesman, Abu Obeida, announces that the release of three Israeli captives, initially set for Saturday, February 15, 2025, has been postponed until further notice.
Abu Obeida stated that the decision comes in response to Israel’s ceasefire violations.
These include delays in allowing displaced civilians to return to northern Gaza, shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Gaza Strip, and failure to deliver promised relief materials.
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Clashes broke out between students of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and private security forces. Amid a worsening accommodation crisis, scores of students are left homeless and desperate, some even sleeping on campus floors. Particularly affected are students from outside the province.
Despite being academically accepted, many students say their residence applications have been left “pending” for weeks, with others outright declined without clear explanations.
Meanwhile, the university claims that its accommodations are full. “[...] we have reason to believe this is not the case. Many available spaces are not being allocated to students in need,” a student countered.
The crisis, an issue affecting students across the country, has hit first-year and returning students particularly hard, especially those who rely on campus accommodation and can’t afford private rentals.
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US President Trump has committed to “buying and owning the Gaza Strip.” Despite opposition from Jordan, Egypt, and Qatar to his ethnic cleansing plan, Trump presses on with his Gaza real estate agenda."
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, US – Thousands of people continue to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, advocating for immigrant rights.
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh – Protesters set fire to the the former residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
🇰🇪 Nakuro, Kenya – Relatives of a missing man confront police, demanding answers. Reports say park rangers detained him before he went missing.
🇱🇧 Tayr Harfa, Lebanon – Hezbollah supporters protest in southern Lebanon against a US diplomat’s visit, rejecting Washington’s call to exclude the group from Lebanon’s next government.
🇬🇷 Athens, Greece – Students rally in Athens, demanding justice for victims of the country’s deadliest rail disaster, with chants echoing the last words of trapped passengers: “I have no oxygen.”
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Here is the fascist and top German opposition party AfD (Alternative for Germany) in their own words.
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Ecuadorians heading to the polls today are primarily concerned with rising crime. The number of violent deaths in the country has risen by 500% since the return of neoliberalism.
Polls indicate that leftist presidential candidate Luisa González is poised to secure first place but without a majority. This would necessitate a second round of voting in the coming months.
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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: German police violently shut down a pro-Palestine protest for chanting in Arabic—the first since Germany introduced a new ban on Arabic slogans at demonstrations.
Officers used force to disperse the crowd, enforcing a rule based on false claims from the German Bild newspaper. The suppression of pro-Palestine voices in Germany is intensifying.
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Musk tweets, Trump rants, but facts bury their lies.
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Two mass graves, containing up to 89 migrants, have been discovered in the deserts of northeastern and southern Libya. Some of the bodies bore gunshot wounds, the UN confirmed.
Traffickers frequently use the Libyan desert route to the shores of the Mediterranean to smuggle people to Europe. Libya remains one of the main transit points for African migrants hoping to cross the Mediterranean.
Meanwhile, the EU bankrolls Libyan forces that hunt down refugees, with kidnapping, torture and forced detention as routine practices. The EU aims to prevent them from reaching Europe, where, by law, they have the right to seek asylum.
According to IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, out of the 965 recorded deaths and disappearances in Libya in 2024, more than 22% occurred on land routes.
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Mexico’s President has reminded US President Donald Trump that the drug trade is driven by massive demand within the US and that it should be addressed as a public health crisis rather than through threats against other countries.
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Violence grips eastern DR Congo as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance. While Rwanda claims to protect Tutsis, the DR Congo government questions who gave them that right. Could the motives of Rwanda, a key Western ally in the region, run deeper?
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Musk tweets, Trump rants, but facts bury their lies.
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US President Donald Trump threatened to cancel the Gaza ceasefire agreement if Hamas does not release all remaining hostages by Saturday noon. His ultimatum followed Hamas’ decision to postpone the next hostage release, citing Israeli violations of the deal, including civilian killings and obstruction of humanitarian aid.
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As liberals mourn the end of USAID, let’s remember their top five most evil and imperialist projects. From forced sterilizations to funding fascists, the “humanitarian” organization was a weapon used against the Global South.
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A group of Neo-Nazi protesters was chased out of town by residents in Lincoln Heights, a Black-majority neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the US.
Residents were also able to seize their flag and burn it. The Nazi group involved is believed to be a sect called “Hate Club 1488”.
The small group of Nazis held up swastika flags and displayed guns in Lincoln Heights but soon escaped when the local community came out in greater numbers, some with firearms to protect residents.
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The American money transfer service Western Union has indefinitely suspended remittance services to Cuba. This decision follows the Trump administration’s reinstatement of the Cuba Restricted List, which now includes Orbit S.A., the Cuban entity responsible for processing Western Union payments.
US companies are now prohibited from conducting business with Orbit S.A. As part of sanctions that “prohibits certain transactions with companies under the control of, or acting for or on behalf of, the repressive Cuban military, intelligence, or security services or personnel.”
The Cuban economy received almost $2 billion in remittances in 2023. The disappearance of these services is designed to hurt Cuba’s economy and impoverish ordinary citizens.
Other decisions have included placing Cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move that will deter investment in the country and eliminate any chance of sanctions relief.
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Thousands of fascists gathered in Budapest, Hungary, for the annual “Day of Honour” commemoration. Each year, neo-Nazi groups from across Europe come together to connect and remember a failed attempt in 1945 by German and Hungarian forces to escape the city’s siege by the Red Army.
The so-called “Day of Honour” is typically marked by neo-Nazi concerts and an annual “memorial hike.” This year, an estimated 4,000 participants took part in the hike, donning Waffen-SS uniforms and other fascist symbols.
A few hundred anti-fascists staged a counter-protest under heavy police surveillance. This follows 2023, when anti-fascist actions against the gathering overshadowed the event.
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Today, we celebrate the birth of socialist poet, director, and playwright Bertolt Brecht, born on this day in 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. Brecht was heavily influenced by Marxism and used his work to serve as a call to revolution.
Brecht pioneered “dialectical theatre” to contrast with traditional theatre, which he saw as too passive and escapist. Through dialectical theatre, he wanted to challenge audiences to adopt a critical perspective of the realities of capitalism. He was known for his collective and collaborative approach to art, placing the worker at the center of his poetry and emphasizing class struggle.
Due to his political views, Brecht was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1933 and later relocated to the US during World War II, where he was placed under strict FBI surveillance. He passed away in 1956 from a heart attack in Germany.
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For decades, CIA-backed operations have fueled global drug networks from Mexico to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, US officials continue to blame foreign governments.
By enabling traffickers to fund anti-communist militias, the agency helped entrench a drug trade that continues to destabilize entire regions today.
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For today, in Black History Month, watch former Black Panther, revolutionary, and scholar Kathleen Cleaver respond to the question of non-violence, arguing that “non-violence is non-functional.” Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1967. She became the first woman to be included in the BPP’s Central Committee, the highest decision-making body within the organization. She wrote many of the organization’s speeches, delivering them nationwide and serving as a media spokesperson.
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Foreign powers continue carving out spheres of influence in Syria, two months after the Assad administration’s collapse. Türkiye, likely the biggest beneficiary, is now planning to establish two new military bases in the country, according to local sources.
With the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led administration in Damascus strengthening ties with Türkiye, Ankara’s influence in Syria is expanding rapidly. Meanwhile, the US is drafting plans to withdraw all its troops from the country, raising questions about the balance of power in the region.
As foreign actors reposition themselves, the future of Syria remains uncertain. Will Türkiye consolidate control over key territories? How will other regional and global powers respond? The shifting landscape signals a new chapter in Syria’s long-running conflict.
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Ecuador has presidential elections tomorrow, amid a climate of violent crime and economic disaster caused by seven years of neoliberalism. We spoke to Ecuadorian economist, Juan Teran, about the failures of the free-market experiment in the country.
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