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Feb 5, 2026 - Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics

By Henry A. Giroux

What is most revealing about the MAGA aesthetic is its studied ugliness. On one side stands the grotesque excess of beauty-pageant femininity, plastic smiles, puffy lips, lacquered beach-wave hair, sharpened jawlines, and a hyper-sexualized nostalgia masquerading as "traditional values." US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem exemplifies this aesthetic as a badge of cruelty. Carefully styling herself in a Barbie-doll register of hyper-femininity, she delivers media performances staged in front of prisons and other sites associated with the punishment and terrorization of immigrants. The effect is chilling: a glossy, pornographic aesthetic fused with images of confinement, state violence, and racialized cruelty. Beauty here does not soften power; it aestheticizes domination and makes authoritarian violence appear natural, even glamorous.

Source: The Bullet No. 3258

Feb 2, 2026 - Cybernetic Circulation Complex

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis (Verso, 2024), Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the speeding up and automation of the circulation of commodities. Big Tech aims to subject everything from advertising and shopping, to logistics and financial services to the level of control and predictability that capital has secured in industrial production.

Source: LeftStreamed

Jan 31, 2026 - Venezuela: It’s Much More Than Oil

By Don Fitz

As the US openly discussed schemes to add Greenland to its list of conquered territories, it became abundantly clear that "Alternative Energy" (AltE, solar, wind, hydro power) joined fossil fuels at center stage.1 Corporations which pull the puppet strings of governments are well aware that oil production will cease long before none remains in the ground. When extraction becomes so expensive that it takes more than a barrel of oil to obtain a barrel, then it will no longer be financially viable to pump it out. They must look to AltE.

Source: The Bullet No. 3257

Jan 28, 2026 - A Global Wave of Resistance to the US Empire

By Palestinian BDS National Committee

The US administration has unilaterally announced a so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza led by US President Trump in a statement that completely omitted any mention of Palestinians. This board is packed with Israel-First politicians and billionaires and installs an Israel-biased former UN envoy who is controlled by the UAE despotic regime as the colonial viceroy of the illegally occupied Gaza Strip, supervising a "technocratic" Palestinian committee. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition leading the global BDS movement, condemns and rejects this thinly-veiled attempt to normalize Israel's ongoing genocide, rehabilitate its genocidal regime, and rescue it from its global isolation. The Indigenous Palestinian people will never give up our inalienable rights.

Source: The Bullet No. 3256

Jan 26, 2026 - The Promise That Canada Broke

By Migrant Rights Network

It's been a month since Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled the caregiver permanent residency program, at least for 2026. He did it on December 19th - the Friday before Christmas, one day after International Migrants Day. For decades, the caregiver program came with a clear promise: provide essential care for our families, and you will be granted permanent residency. That guarantee convinced thousands of women to uproot their lives to come here.

Source: The Bullet No. 3255