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Geopolitical Economy Report | The BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024 was historic, expanding with 13 "partner nations", after adding four new members.

teleSUR English | She addressed the Arab community, an essential group for securing Michigan’s 15 Electoral College votes.

teleSUR English | Once again, the United States and Israel voted against the lifting of arbitrary sanctions against the Cuban people.

CADTM | Contrary to popular opinion, the World Bank is not entitled to immunity as an institution. Section 3 of Article VII of the Bank’s Articles of Agreement explicitly states that the World Bank may be taken to court under certain conditions. For example, the World Bank may be tried by a national court of justice in countries where it is represented and/or has issued bonds.

Jacobin | Donald Trump and his allies aren’t making a secret of it: if they win, they’re going to launch a campaign of repression to destroy the pro-Palestinian movement and the organized left.

Jacobin | Mainstream Democrats are moving away from identity politics — but the Right has doubled down.

The Breach | Poilievre’s rhetoric about immigrants causing Canada’s housing crisis doesn’t track

The Maple | A new ‘seven-point plan’ from B’nai Brith outlines a disturbing co-ordinated effort to punish advocacy for Palestine.

The Maple | Encouraging homeownership instead of economic security through social policy has been a recipe for disaster.

Jacobin | Despite facing a uniquely flawed opponent, Kamala Harris is still running neck and neck with Donald Trump. To shore up support among key constituencies, she needs to champion popular pro-worker policies — and stop underwriting Israel’s genocide.

Orinoco Tribune | According to the electoral body, Gustavo Petro exceeded the established spending limits and utilized funding sources that were not declared. Condemning the accusations against him, the Colombian president stated that the charges brought by the CNE are unfounded, that the body is exceeding its legal capacities, and that his constitutional guarantees are not being respected. President Petro also denied the accusations against him, calling the investigation a “lawfare.”

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor | Since the beginning of its large-scale attack against Lebanon, the Israeli army has committed more than 20 massacres of civilians, and has attempted to legitimize and justify them under the pretext of targeting military targets or carrying out military or political assassinations.

Stuggle-La Lucha | Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization honored with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its anti-nuclear activism, drew comparisons between the plight of children in Gaza and those impacted by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Disconnect | Paris Marx | Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet

CounterPunch.org | The Nobel Peace Prize has long been tarnished. It was awarded to President Obama before he had spent a year in office with no significant peace initiative on his record, and before he became one of the more aggressive presidents in history in terms of projecting US military power unilaterally. Earlier the award was shared by war criminal Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the head of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (who refused to accept his honor and the money that comes with it), and Teddy Roosevelt, imperialist war monger of an earlier era.

The Maple | Canadian governments have failed to use the tools available to them to build affordable housing and impose substantive rent control measures.

The Breach | A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada

Geopolitical Economy Report | Donald Trump threatened 100% tariffs on countries that drop US dollar, to cut off trade: "I would not allow countries to go off the dollar".

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research | Over the past year, the United States has provided Israel with a record $17.9 billion in military aid as it commits genocide against Palestinians.