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AlterNet Black Agenda Report Common Dreams (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, October 31, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT How Trump Destroyed South Africa's Effort to Slow HIV Transmission This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- When it opened in early 2024, Engage Men's Health Clinic served as a free, one-stop shop for sexual health, gender-affirming medical care, and HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. Located within a short distance of seven universities, it was a place where many college students came before "they'd even had sex for the first time," a former worker told The Intercept. This made Engage a "high-impact" clinic for distribution of the HIV prevention drug PrEP. October 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM EDT The Rise of the Christian Left in Texas Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III speaks to the crowd during the We the People TX interfaith service, "A Night of Moral Resistance," in Dallas, on Sept. 9, 2026.Photo: AP Photo/Gabriela Passos "Why do you wanna have a pep rally when people are hurting?" That was the question Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III posed at a September food drive in South Dallas, where volunteers were collecting groceries for struggling families. Across town, Republicans were holding a midterm convention. Haynes, a longtime Baptist pastor and Democratic congressional nominee, was introducing James Talarico, the party's candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas. October 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT How AIPAC and AI Spent Their Money This Midterm Election It's a superlative achieved again and again: The current election cycle is the most expensive on record, according to AdImpact, likely to be surpassed only by the next one. North of $16 billion have been raised ahead of Tuesday's looming elections, with ad spending in House and Senate races topping $4 billion. Mega-donors this election season have overwhelmingly backed Republicans with contributions largely flowing from AI, crypto, and online gambling interests. October 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT AIPAC Isn't Retreating. Here's How It's Already Shaping the Next Congress. In the words of the biggest name in the outside elections-spending game, "Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics." This midterms cycle, however, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's strategy seems to suggest the opposite. Contrary to its signature slogan, AIPAC's name has become anathema to voters across the political spectrum repulsed by Israel's genocide in Gaza and frustrated by Washington's outpouring of military aid for a foreign government while domestic costs soar. October 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT AI Tried to Buy the Midterms -- Then the Lobby Learned Everyone Hates AI The artificial intelligence industry was poised to act as a kingmaker in the midterm elections. Super PAC networks bankrolled with millions of dollars from Anthropic and OpenAI executives spent heavily in competitive primaries earlier this year, including a high-profile race in New York City. They were touted as the looming successor to another single-issue group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as AIPAC moved its spending underground. October 28, 2026 at 2:36 PM EDT Trump Vows to Send Election "Monitors" to Maine After Far-Right Conspiracies Spread With voters set to cast ballots in two critical races that could help determine control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress, fears of potential voter suppression are running high in Maine. Officials in the state have prepared for months against the possibility of election interference from federal officials, and the state remains on high alert in the run-up to the general election on November 3. October 28, 2026 at 1:04 PM EDT The Incredible Shrinking Superpower Just after taking office in 2025, President Donald Trump picked a fight with Yemen's Ansarullah, whom Americans routinely call "the Houthis." Trump got a refresher in the limits of American military power, a lesson reinforced from Korea, Laos, and Vietnam to Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq. The U.S. military can cause a lot of damage, but it can't win wars unless it beats up on weaklings like Grenada and Panama. After U.S. forces killed many civilians but failed to break the resolve of the Yemeni forces, a chastened Trump called it quits. October 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT Prosecutors Want to Keep a Man in Prison for His Wife's Murder -- Despite Judge Saying Their Evidence is Junk Alabama attorney Larry Grissett was checking Facebook in late September when he saw a news story about a man he represented in a murder trial more than 40 years ago. According to the article, a federal judge had just vacated the conviction of that client, Charles McCrory. Grissett was stunned. He later summed up his reaction: "Vindication." October 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM EDT The Bolsonaro Family Playbook: Lose, Cry Fraud, and Run to Trump's America Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Fla'vio Bolsonaro holds a picture of his father, convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro, during a motorcade with supporters in Goiania, Brazil, on Sept. 27, 2026.Photo: Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images "I never thought about leaving the country," Fla'vio Bolsonaro, a Brazilian senator and son of the deposed, disgraced leader, told his 16 million Instagram followers on Monday. It was the day after he lost the presidential election to President Luiz Ina'cio Lula da Silva by a margin of more than 4 million votes. October 27, 2026 at 4:49 PM EDT The Elon Musk Funder Trying to Sway the Race for LA's Top Lawyer A DSA-backed California prosecutor who helped force Meta to pay a historic $17 billion settlement this year is on a glide path to become the top lawyer for Los Angeles -- unless a tech investor cozy with Elon Musk can spend enough to stop her. San Francisco resident John Hering has sunk more than $1.25 million into an effort to defeat Marissa Roy, a deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice endorsed by the LA chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, and to support John McKinney, a county prosecutor running an uphill general election campaign. It's a heavy injection of cash from a single individual in a local race for a little-known office, but it pales in comparison to Hering's private-sector spending: In 2022, his investment firm Vy Capital pumped $700 million into Musk's takeover of the company then known as Twitter and $300 million into his tunnel-construction Boring Company. October 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT Pentagon Fears Drone Attacks on U.S. and Foreign Bases Top defense officials are expressing increasing worry about the vulnerability of U.S. bases around the world and even within the United States as cheap drone technology upends long-standing defense strategies. The fear is mounting after a series recent attacks and threats against ground targets, including the destruction of key bases in the Middle East by Iran, plots against mega-bases in Europe, including to U.S. bombers at a British air base, and a Russian campaign that damaged European military facilities, according to two government officials. October 26, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT Bankrolling American Empire in the Philippines The U.S. military just can't help meddling in the Philippines. At the turn of the 20th century, an American war of conquest killed "over 20,000 Filipino combatants" in addition to "as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians [who] died from violence, famine, and disease," according to no less than the U.S. State Department. But "violence" doesn't do justice to exactly what occurred. |
