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In case it wasn't already obvious, the US-backed Israeli regime seeks to colonize all of historic Palestine (and parts of neighboring countries). Netanyahu uses maps that erase the occupied West Bank. His goal is to erase Gaza too, to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.

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Israel had a joke of a so-called "general strike". It lasted a few hours, and then the regime's labor tribunal ordered the unions to end the strike, which they immediately agreed to do. This was a PR stunt. Nothing changed whatsoever.

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Most of the inflation in Europe in 2021-2023 was caused by shocks to energy and food prices, NOT rising wages (in fact real wages fell in numerous EU countries). This is according to a research paper published by the ECB. But neoliberals still absurdly blame labor for inflation

Most of the inflation in Europe in 2021-2023 was caused by shocks to energy and food prices, NOT rising wages (in fact real wages fell in numerous EU countries).

This is according to a research paper published by the ECB.

But neoliberals still absurdly blame labor for inflation
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After the US government stole Venezuelan President Maduro's plane, now the right-wing billionaire oligarch who owns this website threatens to seize the Brazilian government's assets too US regime officials & oligarchs are neocolonialists who see all Latin America as their colony

After the US government stole Venezuelan President Maduro's plane, now the right-wing billionaire oligarch who owns this website threatens to seize the Brazilian government's assets too

US regime officials & oligarchs are neocolonialists who see all Latin America as their colony
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NEW: Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. The state takes 40% of wages and often denies parole to keep people as cheap labor. Getting written up can lead to solitary confinement. This is modern day slavery.

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In a televised address, President of Honduras Xiomara Castro de Zelaya warns, "the same dark, internal and external forces of 2009, with the complicity of the national and international corporate media, are reorganizing in our country to stage a new coup."

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Honduras' elected left-wing government warned of an ongoing coup attempt. The US backed a coup in Honduras in 2009 as well. The US empire will never tolerate real democracy in Latin America, only puppet regimes that sell their countries to US corporations telesurenglish.net/honduras-denno…

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For decades, Biden has reiterated that Israel is a strategic outpost of the US empire. In 1986, he said, "Were there not an Israel, the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region". In 2023, he said, “if Israel didn’t exist, we’d have to invent it”

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US billionaire oligarchs like Musk claim "freedom" is violated when they're not allowed to interfere in foreign countries (Brazil) to destabilize their elected governments. But this is an actual blow to freedom. US courts are taking away the public's free access to information:

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Western "democracy" is a joke. France's oligarch banker-president Macron appointed as prime minister a politician from a right-wing party that got less than 7% of the vote. The leader of the left-wing coalition that won the most votes, Mélenchon, said "the election was stolen".

Western "democracy" is a joke. France's oligarch banker-president Macron appointed as prime minister a politician from a right-wing party that got less than 7% of the vote.

The leader of the left-wing coalition that won the most votes, Mélenchon, said "the election was stolen".
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As it commits genocide in Gaza, the Israeli regime has expressed support for the US-led coup attempt in Venezuela. Israel absurdly claims right-wing US puppet candidate Edmundo González got more votes than Venezuela's constitutional President Maduro, without citing any evidence.

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This is the real face of so-called "democracy" and "freedom of speech" under the authoritarian US regime. Professors who protest against the US-sponsored genocide in Gaza get suspended and often end up losing their jobs, with no due process.

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The US and Germany's Atlanticist leaders are destroying their economy, boycotting cheap Russian energy, blowing up Nord Stream, abandoning nuclear power, putting tariffs on China, deindustrializing. But corporate oligarchs are scapegoating *workers*, saying they must work harder

The US and Germany's Atlanticist leaders are destroying their economy, boycotting cheap Russian energy, blowing up Nord Stream, abandoning nuclear power, putting tariffs on China, deindustrializing.

But corporate oligarchs are scapegoating *workers*, saying they must work harder