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Trans community confronts bigot invasion in Seattle
Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Trans community confronts bigot invasion in Seattle Seattle protest, May 24, 2025. Seattle — On May 24, the transgender community fought back against an invasion of religious bigots rallying in Seattle’s LGBTQIA2S+ neighborhood on Capitol Hill. The anti-trans event, with the questionable name of “Mayday USA,” was led by Rev.…
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Impact of a $36 trillion U.S. government debt
Between Trump’s “big, beautiful tax bill” that would give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest at the expense of the workers and his on-again, off-again tariffs, the capitalist economy in the U.S. faces an uncertain future. Central to this crisis is a pending $3.8 trillion increase to the already $36.2 trillion U.S. government debt should…
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When the Torturer is the Savior: Can BRICS Help Us Escape the West’s Hegemony and Contradictions?
At the zenith of the mass protests in Egypt on January 25, 2011, Twitter, Facebook and other Western-based social media platforms appeared to be the most essential tools for the Egyptian Revolution. Though some observers later contested the use of the terms ‘Twitter Revolution’ or ‘Social Media Revolution,’ one cannot deny the centrality of these…
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The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good
The United States is an empire, even if its citizens don’t all realize it. That is the conclusion from historian and political scientist Aaron Good, who joins Alan MacLeod on this week’s edition of “MintCast.” Today, Good walks us through the history of how the United States came to dominate the world and the organizations…
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Trans community confronts bigot invasion in Seattle
Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Trans community confronts bigot invasion in Seattle Seattle protest, May 24, 2025. Seattle — On May 24, the transgender community fought back against an invasion of religious bigots rallying in Seattle’s LGBTQIA2S+ neighborhood on Capitol Hill. The anti-trans event, with the questionable name of “Mayday USA,” was led by Rev.…
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Impact of a $36 trillion U.S. government debt
Between Trump’s “big, beautiful tax bill” that would give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest at the expense of the workers and his on-again, off-again tariffs, the capitalist economy in the U.S. faces an uncertain future. Central to this crisis is a pending $3.8 trillion increase to the already $36.2 trillion U.S. government debt should…
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Free them all: Protest at the Northwest Detention Center
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » Free them all: Protest at the Northwest Detention Center Tacoma protest, May 31, 2025. Tacoma, Washington — A rally on May 31 calling for an end to detention of migrants in the privately run ICE concentration camp in Tacoma, Washington, known as Northwest Detention Center brought people together from…
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“So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis
The scenes Willy Massay witnessed in Gaza were harrowing: children shot multiple times in the head, chest and groin; hospitals reduced to rubble; the smell of burning flesh and gunpowder lingering in the air. For the American ICU nurse, recently returned from the besieged enclave, Israel’s assault on Gaza was not just war; it was…