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The U.S. has been a major force of violent repression globally that stamps out people’s hopes for freedom and justice.By Nicholas Powers ,  TRUTHOUT U.S. soldiers in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) patrol the countryside in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on June 7, 2023. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders, and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. As fireworks boom and politicians solemnize Independence Day, the United States betrays the freedom of people around the world. The 4th of July is a strange spectacle: In Washington, D.C., patriots wave American flags at a parade even as the U.S. approves Morocco’s occupation of the Western Sahara, helping to crush the Sahrawi people’s hope for indepe...

The arrests are “clearly an intimidation tactic,” one union member said. By Zane McNeill , TRUTHOUT The Geisel Library at University Of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Graduate students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were arrested at their homes last Thursday by campus police in the most recent escalation of the university’s aggressive anti-union campaign. Jessica Ng, a postdoctoral scholar; William Schneider, a graduate student at UCSD; and a third union member who has chosen to be anonymous, were arrested for participating in recent protests against the university, which academic workers say has&n...