By Luigi Vanzetti | Pamphlets | October 13, 2026 Cover: Donald Trump and Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the White House, March 18, 2025. Official White House photograph by Daniel Torok (public domain). A powerful member of the United Arab Emirates’ ruling family secretly agreed to buy nearly half of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency business for $500 million days before Trump returned to the White House. Months later, Washington opened access to restricted American artific
By Pamela Fuentes | Pamphlets | October 13, 2026 Photo: President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on November 18, 2025. Daniel Torok / The White House, U.S. government work. Donald Trump is offering Saudi Arabia a route toward sensitive American nuclear technology without demanding the full inspections Washington has long required to prevent the spread of atomic weapons. The price Trump publicly attached to the agreement is not great
By Layla Kanafani | Pamphlets | October 13, 2026 Donald Trump’s family is making money from Saudi business deals while the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, negotiates the future of Gaza through a private investment empire bankrolled by Gulf monarchies. That empire holds a stake worth more than $1 billion in an Israeli financial firm whose portfolio includes major suppliers to Israel’s military. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund committed $2 billion to Kushner’s Affin
Slaveholders owned workers. Feudal lords seized peasants’ crops and labor. Capitalists own production and claim the surplus wage workers create. Different systems, the same central fight over who controls the wealth.
In 1948, the U.S. embassy mobilized propaganda and used reconstruction aid as political leverage to defeat Italy’s Communist–Socialist electoral alliance. Declassified diplomatic records expose the campaign.
Beijing sanctioned senior officials in two Latin American and Caribbean countries that recognize Taipei; Washington called the measures coercive on October 13.
Greenpeace Africa and Extinction Rebellion demonstrators protested new oil and gas exploration as energy companies and officials met in Cape Town on October 13.
The Swedish activist joined school protesters in Saint-Denis on October 13 as French pupils pressed demands for teachers, safer buildings and relief from overcrowding.
UNHCR has received only $3 billion of the $8.5 billion needed this year, threatening protection for displaced families across Sudan, Chad and Ethiopia.