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Beyond Electoral Socialism: Why Winning Elections Alone Can’t Ensure Structural Change
It's Going Down
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July 2, 2025
Andrew Lee looks critically at the history of socialist politicians being elected to office. Originally posted to In Struggle. There’s a lot of understandable jubilation at Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the New York City Democratic primary for...
Venezuelan media spotlight Vietnam’s two-tier local government system as turning point
People's Army Newspaper
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RadioMundial, a key state-run broadcaster representing the voice of the Venezuelan government and people, aired a detailed segment titled the two-tier local administration: a historic turning point for the people. The report emphasized that the...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to pay for tax cuts
Arizona Mirror
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
Cuba appreciates Nicaragua and Bolivia’s denunciations of US measures
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 2, 2025
Through the social media platform X, the foreign minister expressed his gratitude to co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as well as to the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation and its revolutionary people for their...
The Iran-US Claims Tribunal and the Recent US Military Operation against Iran
EJIL: Talk!
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June 30, 2025
Much has already been written about the (il)legality of the recent military operation undertaken by the United States against Iran (see here and here), including on this blog here. Yet, one aspect not dealt with so far has been whether there might...
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending legal status for more than 500,000 Haitians
Washington Examiner
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July 2, 2025
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump‘s move to terminate the protected status of more than 520,000 Haitians.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the move, affecting over half a million Haitians who...
Why Is Nicaragua Silencing Critics Even Abroad?
Asume Tech
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July 2, 2025
The assassination of a Nicaraguan military officer turned activist in Costa Rica has triggered severe alarm among human rights advocates and Nicaraguan expatriates. This incident marks the sixth case of a Nicaraguan opponent being killed or...
'Deceitful': York-area Haitians left in legal limbo by Trump travel ban
The York Dispatch - Pennsylvania
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An estimated 10,000 Haitian immigrants live in York City and the surrounding area. Most of them came here legally. The Trump administration enacted a travel ban affecting Haiti and 11 other countries, halting nearly all immigration and travel to...
Fears grow after Nicaraguan critic murdered in Costa Rica
NBC News
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July 2, 2025
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Fears grow after Nicaraguan critic murdered in Costa Rica 02:39 UP NEXT Deadly strike hits beach café in Gaza 01:22 Humanoid robots play soccer in...
Health care would be slashed even for immigrants with legal status under massive Senate bill
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
Nicaragua: Anti-Canal Leader Dies under Police Harassment
Havana Times
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June 22, 2025
Octavio Ortega Arana was persecuted until his final day Octavio Ortega Arana, a leader of the anti-canal struggle, in a photo from January 2015. // Photo: Archive | CONFIDENCIAL The peasant leader led protests against the proposed expropriation of...
Sanctions considerations for non-governmental organisations in a new US administration
Global Investigations Review
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June 30, 2025
The continued and evolving use of economic and financial sanctions by a growing number of jurisdictions and government authorities, the exponential increase in the sheer number of sanctions targets and the increasing level of complexity of...
World Mango Day serves up summer’s star ingredient
The Citizen of East Alabama
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Juicy, sweet and packed with tropical flavor, mangos are a quintessential summer fruit. This season, mango imports are projected to increase nearly 20% over last year. This surge makes World Mango Day on July 22 the perfect time to stock up and...
Farewell to USAID: Reflections on the agency that President Trump dismantled
Alabama Public Radio
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July 1, 2025
A storied US agency, one that began under President Kennedy in 1961 with the aim of providing global stability through a wide array of humanitarian aid and development programs, has now formally closed. Since January, the Trump administration has...
Lehigh Valley Political Pulse | Immigration Enforcement
WLVR-FM - Pennsylvania
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July 1, 2025
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — In his bid for his second term, President Donald Trump won over voters by campaigning against illegal immigration. But recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have brought about civil unrest from California all the...
Russian MFA says West coercing Georgia into military action in the Caucasus
TASS
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July 1, 2025
PYATIGORSK, July 1. /TASS/. Western countries are blackmailing the Georgian government with sanctions in an effort to push it towards military action against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Deputy Director of the Fourth CIS Department of the Russian...
Refugees worry: Is Nicaragua assassinating government critics in Costa Rica?
WLRN - Florida
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Roberto Samcam Ruiz took security measures seriously. A retired Nicaraguan army major who had spoken out against the Sandinista government, he fled to neighboring Costa Rica after his name started popping up on wanted posters. When out in public...
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 6.30.25
Florida Politics
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June 30, 2025
Good Monday morning. Breaking late Sunday — “FAA alert suggests Donald Trump to visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Everglades detention center” via Antonio Fins of The Palm Beach Post — A VIP flight restriction over Ochopee signals a potential visit...
Retired Nicaraguan Army Captain Sentenced to 50 Years for Treason
Tico Times
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June 30, 2025
A retired military officer was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Nicaragua for the crime of “treason against the homeland,” his family denounced on Saturday, saying they had not known his whereabouts since he was detained by police in May....
Yesterday: Do you remember these international stars?
Times News - Pennsylvania
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Do you remember Toni Kukoc as a Sixer? He played in 80 games over parts of two seasons with the 76ers in 2000 and 2001, averaging 9.8 points and 3.8 rebounds. Kukoc contributed 8.0 points per game for the 2000-01 team that reached the NBA Finals,...