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The most revealing feature of the debt mountain is not just its size, significant as that is, but the speed with which it has grown.
The Israeli government is building an execution facility to hang Palestinian prisoners, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Tuesday in a statement from his office. In video released from the site—a prison in central Israel that his office did not name—Ben-Gvir walks through the wing being built for condemned prisoners and says “gallows will be erected” there.
As is always the case in Western coverage of Russia and the war, the history of both the war and the political tendencies in question is completely ignored.
Arday’s appointment put a target on the back of a clearly quite vulnerable man, out of his depth and in no position to answer his critics and political opponents.
Alexander Vindman became a celebrity among pro-war Democrats for his testimony against Trump during his 2019 impeachment over withholding military aid to Ukraine.
The theft of workers' wages and other entitlements at the mines and enterprises is part of a systematic policy.
Silvia’s execution came five days after the first triple execution day in the United States since 2010. Ten more executions are scheduled before the end of the year: two in Florida, five in Texas, two in Tennessee and one in Alabama.
The Hollywood merger exposes the union bureaucracy’s collaboration with oligarchs, threatening jobs, democratic rights and artistic freedom on a global scale.
In a recent interview, Greens candidate Josh Jacobsen defended the NZ military’s role in the criminal imperialist war.
“The cuts will hit clients, support workers, teachers, and healthcare staff alike. It is clear this is an international offensive against the working class.” – Maureen, a former aged-care nurse.
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Thursday, August 20, 2026
US debt at $40 trillion as financial crisis deepens
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary
Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site.
Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for.
Mounting drone and missile “deep strikes” are a response to the fact that the frontline has been fought to a bloody standstill—in a meatgrinder of trenches, artillery and drones.
The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sentencing to 15 years in prison on August 10.
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets.
We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026.
Incensed by South Korea’s refusal to join the US war of aggression against Iran, Trump has unilaterally reduced major joint war games that began Monday and announced plans for talks with North Korea.
While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward.
Loan defaults are rising and the number of companies financed by private credit being placed on a watch list is growing.
Behind the constitutional theater in the Philippine Senate, the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte is being staged to eliminate the last significant political obstacle to Washington’s transformation of the archipelago into a forward base for war with China.
Speakers exposed the disastrous consequences of the evisceration of the NDIS and its impact on the disabled and their families, and the jobs and conditions of health, education and welfare workers.
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