Lula Wins in Brazil, but the Far Right Won’t Back Down

By Geraldina Colotti https://resumen-english.org/2026/10/lula-wins-in-brazil-but-the-far-right-wont-back-down/ Brazil held its ground, one of the last bulwarks against the advance of the far right in Latin America. The veteran Lula pulled it off, winning the runoff with 64,256,232 votes against the 59,826,041 cast for the far right, represented by Flávio Bolsonaro: 51.79% versus 48.21%. It was a hard-fought victory contested down to the last vote, achieved at the end of a toxic election campaign that saw [...]

November 2026 Change Links community calendar

Change Links can’t publish without your support. Send items, articles or poems to changelinks2@gmail.com or via change-links.org/submit/   We need volunteer distributors for CHANGE LINKS Print Edition to VENUES & EVENTS. PLEASE EMAIL US AT <changelinks2@gmail.com> if you can help.   Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the [...]

Non-profit Housing Corp. SRO May Fail – LA City Must Act

by Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) cangress.org Politico reported that SRO Housing is facing “severe financial distress” and could dissolve within a matter of months. SRO Housing is the largest nonprofit housing corporation in Los Angeles; they manage 33 buildings with about 2,600 units of affordable housing for formerly unhoused people, primarily in Skid Row. Skid Row, a majority Black community, is home to the highest concentration of poverty and houselessness [...]

Breaking Out Of The Dark Triad’s War Doom Loop

by Navin Gordon Why does so much of humanity continue to support a political economy that places lifeless money above life itself, profit above people’s social needs, and competition above cooperation?  A system of a few exploiters and many exploited, a few extremely rich and the vast majority poor? Support continues despite the murder of over one hundred and fifty million citizens in ever more brutal, destructive, and genocidal wars since World [...]

Vote for 16-year-olds on Culver City Ballot

The ballot measure in would allow teenagers to participate in the decision-making process on many issues that directly affect their lives. The measure would only apply to certain elections within the city limits, including races for school board, for city offices, and on future ballot measures. Teens in the city have pushed the measure before; in 2022 it failed by only 16 votes. The proposal gained additional support after school board budget [...]

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2026 Ballot Measures – Voting Guide Compendium

California and Los Angeles Ballot Measures The top-two primary system in CA restricts most elections for state and local office to a choice between the two capitalist parties, or sometimes between two members of the same party, and in most cases the outcome is a foregone conclusion. But there are numerous important ballot measures to be decided in November’s general election, and Change Links is offering this compendium of various voter guides [...]

End the US-Israeli War on Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen

Regional Round-up from Drop Site News      Iran is pushing a seven-day roadmap to end the war with the U.S., as Iranian officials held meetings with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The plan, which Tehran said was transmitted via mediators, calls for an end to hostilities on all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon, the release of at least $12 billion in frozen [...]

“The Constitution Lies in Tatters on the Floor”

Lawrence Wilkerson Interviewed by Ralph Nader https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/shooting-wars-and-trade-wars (Excerpts) Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel. Over his 31 years of service, Col. Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, and Special Assistant to Gen. Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Wilkerson also served as Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War [...]

The Role of “Friendship” and Bromance in International Affairs

The Politics of Getting Around Things: Geopolitics as Couples Therapy By Peter Bach [Excerpts] https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/20/the-politics-of-getting-around-things/      Imagine Trump and Xi disappearing into a room for an hour and emerging with the gentlest of smiles to announce that the United States and China had agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons—with Russia and North Korea waiting in the wings to get rid of them too. I suppose the most famous political [...]

Techno-Fascists Monopolize Broadcast News & Tinseltown

Ellisons to Take Over CNN/HBO along with CBS; Warner Bros. along with Paramount from press reports The Ellison family is poised to control one of the world’s largest media conglomerates following a legal settlement with statecleared a significant hurdle to the sale of Warner Bros. AGs. It Discovery to Paramount Skydance. [The news was greeted with a protest at the gates of Paramount’s Hollywood studios. A judge must still sign off on [...]

USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training

After months of student opposition, USC has said it will not renew its contract with the U.S. Navy. By Jackson Mills Daily Trojan photo byyKaijel Mairena USC will end its cadaver contract with the U.S. Navy on Sept. 24, according to a statement from the Keck School of Medicine to Annenberg Media.  USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training. , Under the contract, [...]

Paper Tiger

The Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies​ According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s [...]

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