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11+ min ago (613+ words) The new US National Security Strategy shows that the transatlantic alliance is not just superficially damaged, but deeply divided. What President Donald Trump has announced in individual tweets and Vice President JD Vance in a speech at the Munich Security Conference is now official US foreign policy. The new strategy openly states its predatory goals. "The purpose of foreign policy is the protection of core national interests; that is the sole focus of this strategy," the document states. The strategy aims to ensure "that America remains the world's strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful country for decades to come." To this end, the US wants to "recruit, train, equip, and field the world's most powerful, lethal, and technologically advanced military," build "the world's most robust, credible, and modern nuclear deterrent," and have "the world's strongest, most dynamic, most innovative,…...

18+ min ago (1035+ words) The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature Buenos Aires bus drivers strike Thousands of bus drivers in Buenos Aires and other cities went on strike on Friday December 5 against those lines that still owe drivers 50 percent of their November wages. City bus managers have declared that workers would not get paid until the government money is in their pockets. In the words of one striker: "Many drivers end up having to use their credit cards, which means that that 50 percent owed to us has already being eaten up by high interest rates." The strike is affecting hundreds of thousands of Buenos Aires public transportation users. Protests by pensioners and people with disabilities in Argentina On December 3, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, workers and retirees and people with disabilities marched and…...

24+ min ago (368+ words) By Rita Bhowmik (Dhaka Bureau): Recalling her memories, Aysha said she became separated from her parents in Madaripur while fleeing the Pakistani forces. Exhausted, she hid in a bush with a few other girls. Driven by hunger, they gathered what they had to cook. She and three other girls were returning to the bush with firewood when Pakistani forces caught them. Regarding her current situation, Aysha says, "The sex workers can't take their children to school. I get two meals a day for taking these children to and from school. In addition, I receive oil, soap monthly, clothes during Ramadan, and 500 Taka at the end of the month. They increase the money a little during Ramadan. I live with the two children in Santosh, Tangail.' "Another Birangona of '71 is Anwara Begum. She cannot walk and is mostly sick. She also…...

32+ min ago (241+ words) MAGA Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas threatened state school districts on Monday that they will face "meaningful disciplinary action" if they dare to stand in his way of expanding the organization formerly led by slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to a new report. Abbott added that expanding the Club USA chapters to high schools across Texas would provide "essential moral guidance" for students, Fox News reported. "Any school that stands in the way of a Club America program in their school should be reported immediately to the Texas Education Agency," Abbott said. "I expect meaningful disciplinary action to be taken for any stoppage of TPUSA in the great state of Texas." The expansion comes at a time when Abbott is seeking to reshape the educational landscape in Texas. The state's Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill earlier this year to…...

34+ min ago (947+ words) President Donald Trump hosted the first Kennedy Center Honors ceremony of his second term last weekend, and one reporter in attendance described the night as "very weird."In a Monday article in The Atlantic, writer Alexandra Petri noted that she had always been "obsessed" with the Kennedy Center Honors in the way others may be fascinated by the Oscars or the Grammys, and jumped at the chance to attend the 2025 ceremony. However, she said that this year's ceremony " now that Trump has taken over the vaunted institution by installing himself as chairman and replacing the bulk of the organization's board with his own handpicked associates " felt different [emphasis Petri's]."Something's off. The whole evening has the characteristics of a wish made on a monkey's paw," Petri wrote. "You wanted the Four Seasons, but you got Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Why…...

41+ min ago (246+ words) First lady Melania Trump promoted a high-dollar handbag on her social media accounts on Monday as her husband rages that the concerns Americans have about the cost of living are a "Democrat scam," according to a new report. Melania Trump posted about a handbag designed by Alexandra Gucci Zarini, the great-granddaughter of Gucci founder Guccio Gucci, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. A fifth of the proceeds from the handbag's sale will support Fostering the Future, a White House initiative to provide employment opportunities to children in foster care, according to the report. A boutique in Beverly Hills, California, listed the handbag for sale for $2,800. Her comments come at a time when many Americans say the cost of living is their top concern. According to a recent poll conducted by Politico, 46% of Americans say the cost of living is "the…...

47+ min ago (276+ words) A top Democrat in the House of Representatives made a surprising prediction about her run for a Senate seat in Texas on Monday during an interview on CNN. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) joined CNN's "Laura Coates Live" on Monday night to discuss her Senate run, which she announced earlier that day. Her announcement ended months of speculation that Crockett would run for Senate after Texas Republicans redrew the state's congressional map, and made Crockett's district more competitive for Republicans. During the interview, Crockett said that she expects to pick up support from a surprising group of voters. "A lot of people continue to think that this is about policy, yet they can't really explain how it is that you have Mamdani-Trump voters or how you have Obama-Trump voters, or how you have AOC-Trump voters," Crockett said. "The reality is that's…...

47+ min ago (309+ words) More than one week after the November 30 national elections in Honduras marked by an unprecedented level of intervention and intimidation from Washington, there is still no clear winner. The National Party's Asfura was the chosen candidate of US President Donald Trump, who labeled Moncada a "communist" and Nasralla a "borderline communist," while threatening that there would "be hell to pay" if the election did not turn out to his liking. Both Nasralla of the Liberal Party and Libre candidate Moncada have charged election rigging during the long drawn-out vote count. Moncada delivered a statement on behalf of her party declaring that it refused to "recognize elections held under the intervention and coercion of Donald Trump and the allied oligarchy." The country continues to host the most important overseas US military base in the region, the Enrique Soto Cano air base,…...

52+ min ago (897+ words) A memorandum from US Attorney General Pam Bondi, issued December 4, instructs all federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to compile lists of organizations to be slandered and criminalized as "domestic terrorists" because they oppose fascism and capitalism and advocate for socialism. The six-page document, uncovered and made public by journalist Ken Klippenstein, is a blueprint for federal officials on how to implement National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), issued by Trump on September 25, after the assassination of ultra-right activist Charlie Kirk, a close associate of the fascist cabal in the White House. NSPM-7 is so broadly worded that, as the WSWS warned at the time, it would criminalize virtually all political opposition to the Trump administration, even including the Democratic Party, which holds 47 out of 100 seats in the US Senate and 213 out of 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Its language…...

53+ min ago (235+ words) CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil is set to become the latest anchor of CBS Evening News after network editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly struggled to hire a major name for the role. In his'Status newsletter on Monday, Oliver Darcy reported that Dokoupil had been chosen by Weiss and CBS President Tom Cibrowski to replace current co-anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, who are set to leave the show at the end of the year. While Weiss and Cibrowski had reportedly expressed interest in poaching several "major names" to lead the show, including Fox News host Bret Baier and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, CBS News was "unable to recruit such a high-wattage star" and had to move fast to replace Dickerson and DuBois, according to Darcy. Dokoupil is reportedly set to begin his new role in the new year. The New York…...