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"We are in a very visible, explicit war for our basic survival right now… Our neighborhoods are not being boosted with funding or relief, but with militarized agents to surveil us, intimidate us, and kill us when we're deemed a threat for being Black, brown, or poor." Violent crime is at near record lows across the US — but killings by ICE and police are surging. From Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero, both killed by federal immigration agents this month, to Corey Ruiz, shot by Madison police last week, communities are responding the way they historically have: with mass protests and demands for structural change. Meanwhile, TPS protections are ending this week for roughly 350,000 Haitians, as the Trump administration ramps up a new anti-immigrant crackdown on New York City. Rachel Domond, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Houston, says the timing of this isn't coincidence — it's strategy: “Trump is waning in popularity. People are becoming increasingly conscious that the ills in our society are systemic, and people are angry. They tell us that immigrants are taking all the jobs, or poor Black people are abusing the social programs available, and that's why you don't have what you need. But these are all lies designed to distract us from the real people responsible for our conditions, which are billionaires who hoard all of the wealth.” Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today!

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Since January, the U.S. oil blockade has worsened the living conditions of the Cuban people. Lines of taxis stretch for hours outside Cuba’s gas stations — when fuel is even available. Even when it is, they struggle to find clients due to the lack of tourists. #cuba #oil #blockade #embargo

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Firefighters are still battling devastating wildfires across Europe, with hundreds of thousands of people having been evacuated from their homes. Plus: Burnham lays out his plan for social care in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg, a woman has been killed in a horrific attack on Berlin Pride, and India’s Cockroach Janta Party strikes a blow against Modi. 00:00 Intro 02:05 Wildfires Rage Across Europe 23:39 Burnham’s Social Care Plan 35:38 Berlin Pride Attack 47:02 Gen-Z Protesters Claim Victory In India With Michael Walker, Steven Methven, Laurie Laybourn & Jayati Ghosh. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Journalist Jasper Nathaniel just spent a month in the occupied West Bank, and he came back with a warning: while the world watches Gaza, Israel is finishing a decades-long project to dominate the West Bank and drive Palestinians off their land for good. Rania Khalek talks with him about what settler expansion actually looks like on the ground: armed settlers storming villages on so-called “hikes,” stealing homes and launching attacks from the houses they’ve stolen, cutting off a village’s spring water and building a settlers-only swimming pool in the middle of a Palestinian town. They get into the Israeli state’s role, the wall being built to annex the fertile Jordan Valley, and the looting of ancient ruins in Sebastia. They also dig into Congressman Ro Khanna’s trip to the West Bank, his detention by settlers and soldiers, and the incoherence of coming home to tell Palestinians they must resist nonviolently. They also discuss incoming Congressman Brad Lander, the collapse of “liberal Zionism” and Jasper’s own story as the grandson of Iraqi Jews who never needed Israel. This is just part of this episode. The full interview is available to Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://breakthroughnews.org/subscribe/ Jasper’s Substack piece: https://open.substack.com/pub/infinitejaz/p/a-hellish-month-in-the-occupied-west?r=eexe&utm%5C_medium=ios Jasper’s The Drift piece on Sebastia: https://thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/

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Marx, women, historical materialism, and the danger of reading historical texts in isolation. Thoughts? #history #education #marx #marxism #HistoricalMaterialism

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A new consensus has emerged in Westminster, seemingly overnight: we need more defence spending, and we need it now. But the Ministry of Defence has a record for waste that would put Tony Soprano to shame. £13 billion down the drain, since 2010, at the very least. Aircraft carriers that come in late, overbudget, and beset by mechanical failures. IT systems that cost millions, and are wildly out of date. No other government department could get away with it. But the arms trade spends billions of dollars on greasing the wheels of political consent. They employ armies of lobbyists, print reams of analysis, and bribe politicians the world over to keep the war machine funded. The result isn’t just a crisis of corruption. It’s a threat to our survival as a species. Andrew Feinstein is a former-minister in the South African government, turned investigative reporter. He is the executive director of Shadow World Investigations, and serves on the board of Declassified UK. And in 2024, he stood against Keir Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras. He joins Ash Sarkar on Downstream to lift the lid on how the arms industry really works, and tell us about his political journey. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/ Subscribe to the Downstream newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/

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The US war against Iran is expanding into a larger regional conflict. After Trump sabotaged a diplomatic agreement, Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Now Yemen's Ansar Allah (known commonly as the Houthis) has declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia, shutting down oil exports in the Red Sea. Ben Norton explains how this escalation could cause a severe crisis in the global oil market. Topics 0:00 Trump restarts war on Iran 1:26 Yemen joins the war 2:45 Red Sea blockade 3:28 Oil transit chokepoints 5:05 Saudi East-West Pipeline 5:55 China cuts oil imports 6:27 Saudi oil exports 6:59 Oil price skyrockets 7:55 Gasoline prices rise 9:17 Potential for oil crisis 10:31 Reserves running low 11:21 Yemen explainer 13:07 Ansar Allah (Houthis) 22:05 Axis of Resistance 23:58 Iran grows stronger 27:17 Outro || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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On July 21, Reps. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) took to the House floor to condemn the U.S. government’s “inhumane” policy toward Cuba a week after visiting the island — something Secretary of State Marco Rubio has never done. #cuba #policy #sanctions #blockade

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Japan is swiftly remilitarizing, the US is funneling weapons to Taiwan, and the military encirclement of China is only escalating. Tings Chak, researcher at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and organizer with the Hands Off Asia campaign, joins Amanda Yee to discuss the alarming moves on the part of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to move the country away from its post-WWII pacifist principles – and how it fits into Washington’s preparations for war with China. Chak explains the US’s "architecture of militarization" surrounding China and how it threatens the entire region. But she also explains how people and movements in Asia are fighting back through the Hands Off Asia campaign.

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Angela Rayner has ruled out rent controls, citing Scotland’s scheme as her reason. We ask an expert if she’s right. Plus: Europe is further engulfed in flame, Musk gifts further insights into his insanity to The Economist & Saudi Arabia have learned to stop worrying and love The Bomb. 00:00 Intro 01:25 Rent Controls Off The Table 17:47 Massive Wildfires In Europe 28:24 CWU Chief Dave Ward On Burnham 39:58 Unhinged Elon Musk Interview 59:20 Nuclear Proliferation In The Middle East With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial, Beth Stratford & Dave Ward. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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“It's kind of in the DNA of American bourgeois capitalist politics: demonize your enemy, call them a communist, and that's the end of the story. But there's another element, which is the Republican Party, the MAGA project, Project 2025 — the Trump White House is failing.” The House Ways and Means Committee has sent a subpoena to BreakThrough News, demanding internal communications, financial records and more. We are not charged with any crime, because our only “crime” has been to tell the truth – about the Palestine solidarity movement, about ICE’s terror in our streets, about Washington’s crimes around the world, from Cuba to the Congo. This is a flagrant abuse of power, and a direct attack on our work as journalists and on the First Amendment. The State Department’s dangerous “Cuba report” released Monday – blasting Havana as the global center of a sinister anti-American communist plot by Russia, China, Iran, North Korea– is just the latest step in the Trump administration’s McCarthyist revival. But attacks on the left didn’t start with Trump: Brian Becker, host of the Socialist Program, joins the show to discuss how this latest crackdown on free speech is rooted in US history: From the Palmer Raids to COINTELPRO, every time a mass movement for a more just world starts to gain real traction, the state reaches for the same playbook. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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Latino voters in South Texas’s reddest district are turning on Trump. 1 in 5 regret their choice — now a Democrat could win them back. We sat down with Bobby Pulido and Latino Trump voters. Some voted for him 3x, but they say prices are too high and ICE is out of control. Host & Producer: Nick Valencia Co-Producer: Eric Vasquez Video Editor: Sydney Guthrie Videographers: Rachael Rowan Hastings Adair Gabriel V. Cárdenas Kevyn Kimak Ricardo Velázquez Waldo Trilla Eric Vasquez Sound: Charlie Vela Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong Video Editing Fellow: Daria Nastasia

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Support our work: http://novara.media/support The American empire is in crisis – and there is a new generation of more vocal critics coming from the right.  So what do JD Vance and Tucker Carlson actually believe about American power?  James Pogue has reported on empires and their decline for years, from West and Central Africa, where Wagner Group picked over the corpse of French neo-colonialism, to California's secessionist fringe and the absurdities of Washington.  He also happens to be one of the closest observers of JD Vance, who is just a heartbeat from one of the most powerful positions in the world.  The president's real job is keeping the machine running: asset prices up, markets juiced, the war economy fed. Can anyone actually change that? And would we even want them to try, if it's as ideologically peculiar and dangerous as Vance?  Get the map: novaramedia.com/dyor  Music by Iglooghost. Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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This last month I left the activist motorcycle affinity group I started last year, and wanted to share my analysis as to the failures that lead me to do that, so that others can avoid making the same mistakes. In this video I'll broadly explain the root causes for problems I experienced working with other groups, and how that lead to shifts in culture that convinced me I needed to make a change. Then I'll share several lessons I learned about behaviors and tendencies connected to white liberalism, so that you can push back against them in your own organizing. 0:00 Intro 2:45 People are scared 6:25 Failure analysis 10:30 Organizing failures 20:17 White liberal bullsh*t 43:07 How to be less White 50:01 Malcom X on Self Defense Simple checklists I recommend for improving your security posture in English and Spanish: https://activistchecklist.org/ https://activistchecklist.org/es/ Guide for setting up a secondary device for activism: https://activistchecklist.org/secondary/ ►Find me elsewhere: LINKTREE - https://linktr.ee/squidtips ►Support me directly with Patreon and fun perks! https://www.patreon.com/squidtips ►Use my cool custom emoji's with a channel membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFrmfDhZIom8coan10W819w/join ►Get great gear for 10% off with code "HRT116" at RyderGear! https://www.ryder-gear.com/ ►Get 10% off helmet mount system I use from Chinmount by following this link: https://chinmounts.com/?ref=squidtips

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“We call India the ‘mother of democracy,’ but the children of this democracy have been thrashed left and right on the streets of Delhi.” Dr. John Brittas, Indian MP representing the State of Keralam in the Rajya Sabha, joined BT Live straight from the streets of Delhi, where India’s far-right government is facing a major youth-led uprising: On Thursday the city center was shuttered, the metro closed, the internet jammed, and paramilitary forces from across the country were flown into the capital in response to another night of massive protests demanding the resignation of country’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over irregularities in the country's centralized exam system that negatively impacted the lives of millions of students. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in coalition with left groups has been protesting for over a month, demanding accountability and major reforms from Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party central government – including compensation for the families of young people who have died by suicide connected to this year’s exam irregularities and results. As youth in the capital brace for more police repression, Modi’s government is increasingly “pushed to the wall,” as a movement born from a viral insult swells to the most serious challenge to his rule in years. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today!

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Trump is “very disappointed” by Yemeni Houthis’ attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of Yemen. Plus: Burnham’s first-week policy-blitz continues apace. We talk to Julia Davies of Patriotic Millionaires about their latest headline-grabbing plea to pay more tax. And finally, a prominent Zionist Democrat gets his clock cleaned by Krystal Ball on Breaking Points. 00:00 Intro 00:53 Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker 23:53 Even More Andy Burnham Policies 43:07 Patriotic Millionaires Call On Labour 57:55 Krystal Ball VS Zionist Democrat With NoJusticeMTG, Barry Malone & Julia Davies. PRODUCTS BAR & SHORT DESCRIPTION: New front in Trump & Israel’s Middle Eastern War. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Andy Burnham has announced his final cabinet picks and we examine the new policy announcements he claims will ease financial pressures on working people. Plus: Why Britain needs public ownership of water, and Trump’s tariff war ramps up against Canada. With Aaron Bastani & Michael Walker. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) denounced U.S. sanctions on Cuba as decades-long “human rights violations.” Watch his speech in full. #cuba #sanctions #politics #uscongress #crisis

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