Phi Alpha Theta at Stanislaus State

08/06/2026

More than any other president in recent history, Donald Trump is relying on wealthy donors and political loyalists rather than career diplomats to fill ambassadorships, a Washington Post analysis found.

08/06/2026

In May 2024, massive floods devastated Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. Entire cities remained underwater for weeks, exposing the growing climate crisis, deep social inequalities and the failure of public institutions to protect affected communities.

The Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) worked on the ground and turned disaster relief into a grassroots movement led by affected communities.

In our latest interview, MAB organizer Alexania Rossato reflects on community organizing, government failures, disaster capitalism and the political lessons from the floods.

Read the full interview now: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55076/brazils-flood-survivors-a-movement-fights-for-justice

08/06/2026

05/28/2026

, 100 years ago, the Rif Republic was defeated.
Its history is inseparable from Mohammed Abd el-Krim (1882–1963), a pioneering figure in Morocco’s anti-colonial resistance.
Mao Zedong described him as “the embodiment of a leader of a people’s liberation war,” and Che Guevara visited him in exile in Cairo in 1959. Abd el-Krim united rival Amazigh groups in the Rif Mountains against Spanish colonial rule.

Beginning in 1921, his forces inflicted a series of humiliating defeats on Spain through guerrilla warfare, leading to the establishment of the Rif Republic later that same year.

The republic represented a deeply contradictory form of modernization. Abd el-Krim ruled without a parliament, and Sharia served as the legal framework. At the same time, blood feuds and slavery were abolished, a school system and telephone network were established, and Jewish communities gained greater rights.

In the summer of 1925, the colonial powers struck back. France, which until then had not been directly involved in the war but controlled southern Morocco, joined Spain in a coordinated military campaign. Under the command of Philippe Pétain, later a collaborator with N**i Germany, they launched an air war in which aircraft dropped 10,000 barrels of mustard gas, largely on civilian targets. The chemical weapons had been supplied by German manufacturer Hugo Stoltzenberg.

On 27 May 1926, Abd el-Krim surrendered to French forces. He was exiled to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, and was only allowed to leave for exile in Egypt in 1947.

05/11/2026

Pedro Sanchez's progressive agenda charts a course for the left while the right is gaining ground

04/28/2026

In 1915 , the Armenian Genocide began with mass arrests in Istanbul. Up to 1.5 million were killed. Germany knew early and stayed silent. To this day, Turkey refuses to call it genocide. Remembering is vital to understanding the present.