CounterPunch

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"In my own life, reading “Howl” was an epochal event.   It was to me at 18 what Poe had been at 15, except that Ginsberg was an energizer whereas Poe tended to calm one down." https://t.co/N8tOqAjMSP

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The world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global power. https://t.co/DNjRwrCasE

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The Trump administration is recolonizing Cuba through the ongoing infiltration by foreign private capital... the counterrevolution, characterized by the dominance of private property, is already entrenched and advancing every day. https://t.co/9zQWq3VShu

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Washington’s military calculus has changed. The old assumption—that Iran could be bombed, contained, humiliated, and then brought quietly to the table—has met the hard surface of reality. https://t.co/kmwYaNEbT2

[Jeffrey St. Clair @ZoydintheVoid]

Going to war against Iran with Israel means that Trump can't extricate himself from the war without Israel, which has now crossed the Litani River in Lebanon and the Yellow Line in Gaza.

[Greg @GregGrandin]

For perspective, the East Germans over the course of nearly 3 decades, killed 140 trying to cross over the Berlin Wall.

[Nathaniel St. Clair @NatStClair]

I just can't believe the world's most famous conman ended up conning ME!

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The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. https://t.co/PMltaOXbpI

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One Month Inside the Trump Administration’s Siege on the Cuban People. https://t.co/9zQWq3VShu

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The Paris Commune reminds us of an important fact: here was one revolution that did not take place in a poorer country, but in one of the world’s leading capitalist nations. https://t.co/evlnzkevo8

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Why do the Washington Post and George Will love the F-35? https://t.co/P6mZlHYKW0

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The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas had weaponized sexual violence on October 7. https://t.co/KEwJ8ZYFt2

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Despite the death and destruction Trump and Netanyahu have inflicted, Iran is more powerful now than it was before the war. The cards it holds can’t be bombed away. https://t.co/YKAqjESRrt

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AI development does not represent or grow out of neutral technological progress or “market forces.” It is a deeply coercive and political project driven by a collusive state-capitalist oligopoly and supported by an ideology that openly devalues human life. https://t.co/T1EqTQkKhn

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Corruption has never been far from the center of American politics.

What distinguishes Donald Trump from earlier corrupt presidencies is that corruption no longer operates behind closed doors, shielded by the liberal rituals of institutional legitimacy. https://t.co/uwquPi7Jd7

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Remembering the Anti-War Women of Waterloo. https://t.co/sBbjqsd3GF

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“The air we breathe, the water we drink are not abstract concepts: they shape our health, our livelihoods, and our quality of life... Under Lee Zeldin, the U.S. EPA has made its sharpest turn in decades away from that core mission." https://t.co/rJGtmkeLp1

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Four Reasons We’re Being Lied To: https://t.co/inNAdxNtXQ

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It is reassuring for Christians to know just how close their president is to God. https://t.co/uSw370LH45

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What can Texans learn from their own Left populist roots? https://t.co/KAb8sKCt6t