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15+ min ago (212+ words) President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to demand that Mexico release vast amounts of water to the United States " or face yet another round of tariffs. "That is why I have authorized documentation to impose a 5% Tariff on Mexico if this water isn't released, IMMEDIATELY," Trump continued. "The longer Mexico takes to release the water, the more our Farmers are hurt. Mexico has an obligation to FIX THIS NOW. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" This is not the first time Trump has made such a complaint against Mexico over water treaties. In April, Trump proclaimed, "Mexico OWES Texas 1.3 million acre-feet of water under the 1944 Water Treaty, but Mexico is unfortunately violating their Treaty obligation. This is very unfair, and it is hurting South Texas Farmers very badly." This comes as the Supreme…...

48+ min ago (1733+ words) Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. In 1975, at the age of 19, she joined the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) and remained an active and leading member for the rest of her life. On November 28 she died from the consequences of a tragic accident in her flat in Duisburg. Her German and international comrades will remember "Elli," as everyone called her, for the tireless energy with which she championed Marxism among workers and party members, for her firmness of principle and for her human warmth. Dozens of messages of condolence received by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) from all over the world express this. "For Elli, the struggle to build the International Committee of the Fourth International as the world party of socialist revolution was her…...

50+ min ago (453+ words) Negotiators for the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) announced a tentative agreement on Monday, aimed at heading off a strike by over 5,000 SEPTA transit workers in Philadelphia. Transit workers in Pennsylvania's most economically important region have been laboring without a contract for more than a month." After holding a strike authorization vote on November 16 under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger, TWU officials deliberately kept workers on the job, demobilizing their power while openly collaborating with management and the state. After the expiration of their one-year contract on November 7, the TWU 234 leadership kept members guessing about what would come next. Only after mounting pressure from below did the leadership formally call a strike authorization vote more than a week later on November 16, when members voted unanimously for a strike. Following this, the Philadelphia Federation…...

51+ min ago (423+ words) Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP Former Colorado election official Tina Peters" latest effort to get out of prison flopped Monday, as a federal magistrate judge denied her habeas corpus petition because her state-level appeals had not yet run their course. She was convicted of seven felonies (including attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failure to comply with the statutory requirements of her role as clerk) and then sentenced to nine years in prison in October 2024. Trump has repeatedly and vociferously attacked the prosecutors, the judge, and others involved in convicting Peters, complaining it was caused by "Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020" " even though the DA was a Republican. The president has gone so far as to…...

51+ min ago (796+ words) From Berlin, Munich and Dresden to Dortmund, Essen and Stuttgart, tens of thousands of young people took to the streets on December 5 in more than 90 cities to protest against the reintroduction of conscription. The demonstrations were a powerful expression of the enormous opposition to German militarism and the danger of a third world war. In Saxony alone, around 2,000 pupils took part in the demonstrations. "Up with education, down with armaments," they chanted in Dresden. "We are not cannon fodder!" and "Send [chancellor] Merz to the front" appeared on hand-made placards in Essen. One slogan recalled the'xenophobic agitation'of the chancellor aimed at migrants: "Too bad for the urban environment, but good enough for the front." Most participants linked the fight against conscription with the broader struggle against militarism and war, and some also addressed the underlying cause of this development in…...

54+ min ago (247+ words) Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts committed two turnovers on the same play in a losing effort against the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football. But the most memorable " and infamous " moment of the game came midway through the second quarter with the Eagles trailing 7-3. On 3rd and 2 from the Los Angeles 21, Hurts dropped back and threw a pass that was intercepted by defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand, who promptly fumbled the ball, which Hurts scooped up, only to cough it up back to the Chargers. HURTS THREW A PICK, GOT IT BACK, THEN FUMBLED " " ESPN (@espn) December 9, 2025 Here is the chaos as documented by ESPN's play-by-play log from the game. (Shotgun) J.Hurts pass short middle intended for A.Brown INTERCEPTED by D.Hand at LAC 17. D.Hand to LAC 24 for 7 yards (W.Shipley). FUMBLES (W.Shipley), RECOVERED by PHI-J.Hurts at LAC 32. J.Hurts to LAC 33 for…...

55+ min ago (242+ words) The defense lawyers commissioned Yuri Borisovich Irkhin, one of Ukraine's leading criminologists, to conduct a "linguistic examination" of the statements and articles that Bogdan wrote and published, and that have served as the principal foundation for his prosecution. Irkhin found that they provide no basis whatsoever for his prosecution as a "traitor" and a supporter of the Putin regime. His conclusion is unequivocal:" 2. ".there are NO statements, phrases, sentences, or word combinations that have signs of propaganda aimed at supporting the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine." (Emphasis in the original) Irkhin reached the same basic conclusion with regard to all statements that expressed the position of the YGBL and the WSWS on the war. Thus, after analyzing the speeches of Andrei Ritsky and Bogdan Syrotiuk to the 2023 International May Day Rally, Irkhin notes:" Irkhin found that all…...

1+ hour, 8+ 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,…...

1+ hour, 14+ 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…...

1+ hour, 20+ 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…...