‘Trillionaires Shouldn’t Exist’: Obscene Musk Milestone Spurs Calls for Aggressive Wealth Tax
“Musk’s cosmic-scale wealth-hoarding is particularly abhorrent when you place it against the backdrop of how much damage he’s done,” wrote Spiers. “It’s hard to quantify the scale of destruction and deprivation that he will never personally be held accountable for. How do you value the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who have died since Musk, in his words, gleefully ‘fed [USAID] into the woodchipper’? How do you value the lives of people who will die because DOGE cut major biomedical research funding?”
US student debt repayment system is being overhauled – here’s what to know
It’s a U-turn from how the Biden administration approached student loans including, at one point, attempting to cancel $430bn worth of student debt before it was blocked by the supreme court in 2023.
Experts say the new plans offered by the Trump administration are less forgiving than previous programs and will make college more prohibitive for future generations.
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Uprising in Bolivia—Bring Down Rodrigo Paz By the Power of the Streets!
A victory for the workers, peasants, and indigenous and oppressed peoples in Bolivia against this government will provide an enormous boost to the struggle against the rise of the far right throughout Latin America and all imperialist meddling in the region. This is the basis for defeating US imperialist intervention in Venezuela and the increasingly concrete threats against Cuba. In all these cases, the priority is the mass struggle and a socialist program.
Climate-fuelled landslides may have killed 58 of world’s rarest great apes in 4 days, pushed species closer to extinction
The Tapanuli orangutan was recognised as a separate species only in 2017. It survives in three isolated populations in the West, East and South blocks of Batang Toru. Researchers said sustained additional losses of more than 1 per cent a year could push the species further towards extinction.
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