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Israel Slaughters 58 Palestinians, Injures Over 2,000 In Horrific Massacre LIVEBLOG: The Massacres, As They Happened Corbyn, Varoukakis, Melenchon, European Leftist Leaders Condemn Israeli Murders South Africa Withdraws Ambassador in Israel Over Gaza Killings... Trump Opens Illegal Jerusalem Embassy, US Calls Gaza Massacre A "Hamas Political Stunt" When Is a Massacre Not a Massacre? The Spineless Press And The Gaza Pogroms Greenpeace: European Arms Deals, Especially With Israel, Turkey, Saudi Are Abhorrent And Must End Now Noam Chomsky On Oil Imperialism and the US-Israel Relationship #PourLaGrèveGénérale So-Called France Is Boiling: Calls For An Indefinite General Strike #PourLaGreveGenerale: Universities Occupied, Evicted As Students And Workers Fill The Streets Amid Mass Strikes #NDDL: Mobilising For The 2nd Phase Of Evictions On The #ZAD Solidarity Actions By ZAD Defenders Against Banks, Financial Institutions Tariq Ali And Angel...

Since Donald Trump took office last January, commentators have struggled to define the meaning of his "America First" agenda. Seemingly wide discrepancies in his administration's communications and actions have led many to point to the influence of individual personalities, or the erratic character of Trump himself. However, with his actions in the last two weeks, it is now absolutely clear what "America First" and "economic nationalism" stand for- an aggressive trade and economic policy that will create gross inequality, environmental ruin, and fan the flames of global conflicts, and one that is intensely aligned with the agenda of national business groups. The main goal of the Trump administration appears to be to increase US exports to further the dominance of US multinationals abroad, perhaps most crucially in the energy segment, which we have discussed in a previous piece. However, information technology, high-tech weaponry, chemicals, and a...

#Greve22Mars: French Workers, Students Strike Against #Macron Laws, Half A Million Walk Off the Job, Clashes With Riot Cops   CGT, FO, FSU, CFTC, CFE-CGC Disrupt Trains and March Through the Streets   CALL FOR WORLDWIDE MANIFESTATIONS IN MAY   Mass Mobilisation of Students in the Squares of Paris, the Sorbonne Protests Censored....Call for #Antipub Anti-Advertising Acts and Graffiti March 23-25     Slogans from the Walls of Paris, 2018 Were You Naive Enough to Think it Was Just Cambridge Analytica?   Google Sets up “News Initiative” to Censor Political Opposition and Promote Mainstream Media   Italy: Telecom Tower Up in Flames- Against the Connected Society Deserting the Digital Dystopia: Computers Against Computers   US House of Representatives Votes to End RussiaGate Probe, Says "No Collusion"   No Spirit of Liberty: The Salisbury Case, Corbyn and the Need for Dissent   Corporate Med...