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@Greg_Palast on why 21 million or more voters could lose their right to vote under the terms of Trump's March 25 Executive Order on voting procedures.
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Trump Executive Order Gives DOGE Access to Voter Rolls
No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access to the voter files of every state for the pu...
www.gregpalast.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Solidarity with the pro-democracy uprising in Turkey is important to the anti-fascist movement globally.
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Turkey and the Neofascist Contagion | Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر
The ongoing battle in Turkey has become increasingly significant for the entire world. If the Turkish popular movement wins, its victory will have a significant impact in galvanizing resistance to the...
gilbert-achcar.net
March 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Steven Donziger on the fossil fuel fascists at Energy Transfer, Chevron, and the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher who are engaged in lawfare against fair trials, free speech, environmental protection, Indigenous rights, and any challenge to fossil capital.
www.democracynow.org/2025/3/20/gr...
Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests
A jury in North Dakota has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages for defaming Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Texas-based pipelin...
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March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
An ominous decision for fair trials, free speech, environmental protection, and Indigenous treaty rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...
Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for More Than $660 Million in Damages
A lawsuit claimed Greenpeace had played a major role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Greenpeace has said a loss could put it out of business in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hannah Perekhoda, a Ukrainian socialist originally from Donetsk City which is now occupied by Russia, calls for a leftist program for European security in the age of Trump that combines military and social security. x.com/HannPerekh/s...
Hanna Perekhoda @hannaperekhoda.bsky.social on X: "Ensuring European security is no longer a matter of debate—it is an undeniable necessity. The real question now is whether the left has a program. If it merely continues to lament militarization without offering solutions, it will be deserting politics altogether... 1/" / X
Ensuring European security is no longer a matter of debate—it is an undeniable necessity. The real question now is whether the left has a program. If it merely continues to lament militarization without offering solutions, it will be deserting politics altogether... 1/
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March 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What Ukrainians think about Trump in Bucha, the site of atrocities against civilians by the Russian army early in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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For Ukrainian Survivors of Putin's War, Donald Trump is Yet Another Threat to Their Lives
"Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin 'wants peace'" a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
bylinetimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ukraine Solidarity Network statement on the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. www.ukrainesolidaritynetwork.us/ukraine-soli...
Ukraine Solidarity Under the Trump Administration | Ukraine Solidarity Network
www.ukrainesolidaritynetwork.us
February 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Russia invaded Ukraine, but according to Trump it is Ukraine that should pay reparations to the USA, not Russia to Ukraine.
www.kyivpost.com/post/47377
Trump’s Rare Earth Deal – And Coercion in Munich – Unveiled
The draft offer reportedly given to Ukrainian officials by the US asked Kyiv to renounce much more than their rare earth minerals – and it almost stopped US-UA diplomatic talks in their tracks.
www.kyivpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
US imperialists talked with Russian imperialists in Saudi Arabia yesterday on how to carve up Ukraine between them and call it peace. Trump gets Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Putin gets fossil capital’s investments and technology. Back to business as usual.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia
Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
While Trump and his minions now openly tell Ukraine to cede land and people to Russia, Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda explains why "The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces" like Trump & Putin.
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Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascism’
Ukrainian historian and activist looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of the war in Ukraine.
voxeurop.eu
February 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"The real danger is unfolding quietly — not with tanks in the streets but with hard drives, spreadsheets and bureaucratic maneuvers," notes this York Dispatch editorial call for resistance: "The time is now. Start small. Don’t stop."
www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinio...
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Nick McKim, Australian Green representing Tasmania speaking in the Australian Senate: "The United States is sliding into fascism....Trump belongs behind bars, not in the Oval Office." www.instagram.com/p/DFrEd8gTLEk/
February 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Resistance must be politically independent of the neoliberal corporate Democrats as well as the far-right Trump Republicans.
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tempestmag.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What is the same and different about today's neofascism compared to the fascism of the mid 20th century.
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The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features | Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر
With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era of th...
gilbert-achcar.net
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Timothy Snyder: "Of course it's a coup."
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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February 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Musk-Trump electronic coup is hitting a wall of court injunctions. Will the Supremes uphold the wall? Will Trump and Musk ignore the injunctions? Will Congress impeach Trump if he defies the injunctions? A constitutional crisis is upon us.
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Will the Republic Strike Back?
The attempted hostile takeover of the U.S. government by Trump and Musk is beginning to hit a wall. Let’s see if the wall holds.
prospect.org
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
While progressive Americans sit shell-shocked and immobilized by Trump's mediagenic rants and decrees, his accomplice, Elon Musk, is carrying out a behind-the-scenes electronic coup that is much more effective than the bush-league Jan. 6 coup attempt.
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Elon Musk Is Leading an Electronic Coup D’État - New Politics
Musk’s take-over is tantamount to a coup, and far more effective, serious, and dangerous than the insurrection that Trump organized on January 6, 2021.
newpol.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Please sign this appeal to stop the execution of Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist Pakhshan Aziz by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Urgent Appeal: Halt the Execution of Pakhshan Azizi
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January 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted
The Green Party of LA County calls for passage of the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act at upcoming special State Legislative Session, so those responsible for the climate catastrophe that created the conditions for the #LAFires are held accountable losangeles.cagreens.org/issues/la-fi...
January 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Powerful testimony on the horrors of Russian aggression and occupation and the resistance of ordinary Ukrainians by Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights lawyer who leads the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, which was award a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.
www.democracynow.org/2024/12/31/u...
Ukraine Faces a “Cold, Dark Winter” as Russia Strikes Energy Grid
Russian missile and drone attacks are continuing across Ukraine as the country already faces a cold, dark winter after Russia’s strikes destroyed about half of the country’s energy infrastructure. Thi...
www.democracynow.org
January 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM