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🧵 DigestOct 14, 2026
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Podcast

The National Security State is BLASTING Your Mental Health - Resist! w/ Burqas and Beer Podcast

The National Security State is BLASTING Your Mental Health - Resist!

Madina Warkdak and Kyna WiseMadina Warkdak and Kyna Wise

Two social workers join the host to argue that US militarism, the expanding security state, and ongoing genocide are deliberately eroding Americans' mental health, calling for decolonized wellness and reparations instead of individualized self-care.

Two social workers discuss decolonising wellness and staying politically engaged amid genocide, an expanding security state, and militarism, asking how the wellness community's silence on ICE, Gaza and data centres affects mental health.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Article

China elevates ties with Botswana and Togo - Friends of Socialist China

China and Botswana elevated ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during President Duma Gideon Boko's October 12-17 state visit; the two marked 51 years of diplomatic relations and 45 years of Chinese medical teams, while Togo and China will celebrate 55 years of ties next year.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez Presents Overview of Care for Families Affected by June 24 Double Earthquake

Venezuela's acting president reports on the Venezuela Reborn Plan, detailing rehabilitated homes, restored public services, and health and education repairs more than 100 days after the June 24 earthquakes.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

Homelessness In Australia's Northern Territory

Liam Grealy

The Northern Territory government's closure of the YiSSA accommodation facility threatens to evict nearly 400 residents into an already overwhelmed homelessness system, raising questions of systemic collapse.

Oct 11, 2026
Article

Earthquake in Panama: 26 Injured, Hundreds of Impacted Buildings, No Fatalities Reported

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake near Tonosí, Panama injured at least 26 people and damaged homes, schools, hospitals and churches, prompting evacuations and a temporary halt to dialysis treatments.

Oct 9, 2026
Article

From Norman Bethune and Dwarakanath Kotnis to Hussam Abu Safiya – medicine in the fight for national liberation - Friends of Socialist China

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was illegally captured by the Israeli military on December 27, 2024; his weight dropped by one-third in captivity, where he remains alongside at least 160 other medical professionals, including 20 doctors.

Oct 9, 2026
Article

US Judge Denies Venezuela's Cilia Flores Medical Bail as Solidarity Campaigns Demand Her Release

A US federal judge denied medical bail for Venezuela's First Lady Cilia Flores despite her deteriorating cardiac condition, as solidarity campaigns demand the release of her and President Maduro.

Oct 8, 2026
Podcast

News Round-up Ep. 271

Pakistan & Turkiye ENTER Saudi War on Yemen

A weekly news round-up marking the fourth year of Israel's genocide in Gaza and three years of Hezbollah's support front, plus Yemeni strikes on Saudi oil infrastructure and airports.

Oct 6, 2026
Podcast

Ep 328 - Tenants Need Unions Too

Tenant and worker organising takes centre stage, from mass housing protests and strikes in France and Spain to New York home care and taxi drivers, plus a DoorDash wage theft settlement.

Oct 5, 2026
Article

Venezuela: Delcy Rodríguez Inspects Housing and Hospital Recovery in La Guaira

Venezuela's acting president inspected earthquake reconstruction in La Guaira, reviewing new housing, repaired homes handed to families, and reopened hospital services funded by the state.

Oct 5, 2026
Video

Dr Judy Dlamini: Power, Accountability and the Burden of the African Woman

Judy Dlamini

Dr Judy Dlamini discusses women's safety in South Africa, barriers facing Black women in leadership, inequality, medicine and health research, and why leadership should be a responsibility rather than a title.

Sep 30, 2026
Article

Ma Haide – a bridge of friendship between China and Lebanon

Michella Rizk

The life of George Hatem, a Lebanese-American doctor who joined the Chinese revolution as Ma Haide, became a citizen of the People's Republic and helped build its public health system.

Sep 30, 2026
Video

The Truth is Buried: The Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill University

A documentary on the Mohawk Mothers' fight to uncover unmarked graves at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital site, where Indigenous children were subjected to psychiatric experiments.

Sep 29, 2026
Article

Death Toll From 'Israeli' Aggression in Gaza Rises to 74,022

Gaza's Health Ministry reports 74,022 martyrs and 175,893 injured since October 2023, with 1,421 deaths since the October 2025 ceasefire, as Israeli attacks continue and Kamal Adwan Hospital suspends operations.

Sep 25, 2026
Video

Pakistan's Imran Khan Crackdown: Hospitals Brace for 'Mass Casualties'

Junaid S. Ahmad

Pakistan's military regime locks down Islamabad and deploys 35,000 troops to stop a march for imprisoned ex-prime minister Imran Khan, as hospitals are told to prepare for mass casualties.

Sep 23, 2026
Video

September 23, 2024: Lebanon's Deadliest Day Since "Civil War"

Ali Mazloum

A field report from southern Lebanon revisits September 23, 2024, when over 1,100 Israeli airstrikes killed at least 492 people and wounded more than 1,600, forcing mass displacement and prompting residents to recall the day and their later return.

Sep 22, 2026
Podcast

Ep 326 - Lawless Lawmen

Weekly labour headlines cover strikes at Amazon, Samsung, Bradford White and the Beverage Market, plus CVS pharmacists organising over worsening conditions and ICE raids targeting workers.

Sep 22, 2026
Article

Gaza genocide complaint follows Israeli soldier to Italy

Ali Abunimah

The Hind Rajab Foundation filed a criminal complaint in Italy against an Israeli soldier over alleged war crimes and genocide in Gaza, prompting Italian lawmakers to demand accountability.

Sep 19, 2026
Article

When Healthcare Becomes the Family's Problem

William Murphy

A personal account of an elderly stroke survivor discharged home argues that US healthcare transfers the labour of care onto unpaid families, privatising dependency rather than meeting human need.

Sep 18, 2026
Article

US Court to Review Venezuela's First Lady Cilia Flores' Pretrial Release Request on October 8

A US federal judge set an October 8 hearing on Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores' pretrial release request, as her lawyers cite a deteriorating cardiac condition and CODEPINK campaigns for her home detention.

Sep 17, 2026
Video

Zionist Pager Terror Attack Two Years Later: Survivors' Testimony

Ali Mazloum

Survivors and doctors in Beirut's southern suburbs recount the September 17, 2024 pager explosions in Lebanon, detailing lasting injuries, medical treatment, and the failure to hold anyone accountable.

Sep 17, 2026
Video

Doctors' POV: Treating Victims of Israeli Pager Attack on Lebanon

VPol

Lebanese doctors and hospital staff recount treating the thousands wounded by Israel's September 2024 detonation of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon.

Sep 16, 2026
Article

Starbucks Workers Are Calling for a Nationwide Boycott

Jenny Brown

Starbucks Workers United announced a nationwide boycott to pressure the coffee chain into signing a first contract covering 12,000 unionized baristas, citing understaffing, unsafe conditions, and 550 unresolved labor charges.

Sep 15, 2026
Podcast

Ep 325 - Organizing Orgrimmar

A labour roundup covering contract wins at Blizzard, strikes by nurses, Amazon drivers and postal workers worldwide, New York's new Office of Worker Power, and a report on the movement's record growth.

Sep 15, 2026
Article

The Myth of Venezuela's 'Free Oil' to Cuba

Iramis Rosique Cárdenas

The claim that Venezuela gave Cuba free oil for twenty years misrepresents a 2000 cooperation agreement that traded preferential oil financing for Cuban medical and technical services, a narrative used to justify the US blockade.

🧵 DigestSep 12, 2026
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Article

US Court Grants Venezuela's First Lady's Request to Seal Her Medical Records

US Steps Up Pressure on Uruguay to Expel Cuban Medical Brigade

Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

A US federal judge granted Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores' motion to seal her medical records while she seeks pretrial release on health grounds after her January 2026 abduction by US forces.

Washington reportedly pressures Uruguay to end the Cuban medical brigade and its free eye-care hospital, threatening blacklisting and loss of military support as Montevideo resists US regional influence.

Sep 11, 2026
Article

Venezuela's First Lady Cilia Flores Seeks Pretrial Release for Cardiac Treatment (+Conditions)

Cilia Flores, Venezuela's first lady, requests pretrial home detention in New York, citing a deteriorating cardiac condition and inadequate care after her abduction during the US attack on Venezuela.

Sep 11, 2026
Video

Jwaya Ambulance Team Remembers Heroes Martyred in Zionist Medicide

Ali Mazloum

Survivors and colleagues of the Jwaya Civil Defense center in southern Lebanon recount the Israeli strike that martyred 24 paramedics and destroyed the facility, and vow to rebuild it.

Sep 9, 2026
Article

Livestream: Surviving genocide means "hundreds of daily struggles"

Eli Gerzon

Palestinian activist Abu Artema describes life under Israel's genocide in Gaza, the Great March of Return, and the daily struggles of survival amid starvation and displacement.

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