(2023-02-03). Universities Submit To Neoliberalism And Fascism. popularresistance.org We are witnessing the rise of a unique brand of U.S. fascism, which has once again reared its ugly head and has made higher education one of its primary targets. This fascist attack on the university is made possible by the longstanding neoliberal withering of its institutions, which now rely mostly on underpaid contingent workers. The disempowerment of university labor runs hand-in-hand with a right-wing ideological front — rooted in rampant anti-intellectualism and rugged individualism — which seeks to control what knowledge universities can produce and teach. In order to counter this attack on high…
(2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |
(2023-02-04). Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrats capitulate. wsws.org House Speaker McCarthy has allotted an outsized number of slots on key committees to members of the fascistic House Freedom Caucus who held up his election for Speaker for 15 ballots, as well as other far-right lawmakers who supported his bid for the speakership.
(2023-02-03). It's going to take a mass movement. cpusa.org 
Editor's Note: Below is the full report by Joe Sims to the CPUSA National Committee on January 14th. Previously an excerpted keynote was published under the title "The Party We Must Become." As we meet this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the fight against the fascist danger remains front and center. Make no …
(2023-02-04). Never Again? The Same Criminals Who Funded Hitler are Imposing Tyranny on Us Today. dissidentvoice.org 
Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharav's new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise …
(2023-02-04). Cooperazione a 360 ∞ Con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? globalresearch.ca La Presidente Meloni, in visita ufficiale a Tripoli, ha impegnato l'Italia a una "cooperazione a 360 gradi con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? Il "Governo di Unità Nazionale" libico, "internazionalmente riconosciuto", presieduto da Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Esso è stato …
(2023-02-03). Universities Submit To Neoliberalism And Fascism. popularresistance.org We are witnessing the rise of a unique brand of U.S. fascism, which has once again reared its ugly head and has made higher education one of its primary targets. This fascist attack on the university is made possible by the longstanding neoliberal withering of its institutions, which now rely mostly on underpaid contingent workers. The disempowerment of university labor runs hand-in-hand with a right-wing ideological front — rooted in rampant anti-intellectualism and rugged individualism — which seeks to control what knowledge universities can produce and teach. In order to counter this attack on high…
(2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |
(2023-02-04). Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrats capitulate. wsws.org House Speaker McCarthy has allotted an outsized number of slots on key committees to members of the fascistic House Freedom Caucus who held up his election for Speaker for 15 ballots, as well as other far-right lawmakers who supported his bid for the speakership.
(2023-02-03). It's going to take a mass movement. cpusa.org Editor's Note: Below is the full report by Joe Sims to the CPUSA National Committee on January 14th. Previously an excerpted keynote was published under the title "The Party We Must Become." As we meet this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the fight against the fascist danger remains front and center. Make no …
(2023-02-04). Never Again? The Same Criminals Who Funded Hitler are Imposing Tyranny on Us Today. dissidentvoice.org Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharav's new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise …
(2023-02-04). Cooperazione a 360 ∞ Con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? globalresearch.ca La Presidente Meloni, in visita ufficiale a Tripoli, ha impegnato l'Italia a una "cooperazione a 360 gradi con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? Il "Governo di Unità Nazionale" libico, "internazionalmente riconosciuto", presieduto da Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Esso è stato …
(2023-02-03). How a Network of Nazi Propagandists Helped Lay the Groundwork for the War in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com "History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be …
(2023-02-04). "It is impossible to defeat imperialism based on bourgeois nationalism" wsws.org The following letter on the political situation and moods in Russia was sent by the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists in Russia to the International Committee of the Fourth International.
(2023-02-03). Washington's Reich Syndrome… War Plans Accumulate Beyond Russia to China. strategic-culture.org This year is promising to be a most consequential watershed in world history. | The reckless warmongering ambitions of the Western powers know no bounds. Just as Washington and its imperial minions in the NATO axis are escalating the war in Ukraine against Russia with the utmost deranged folly, the Western rulers are also pushing ahead to bait China with provocations and threats. The psychopathic behavior of the collective Western so-called leaders shows beyond doubt that the Ukraine conflict is but one battlefield in a bigger global confrontation. | This week saw the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on a…
(2023-02-03). When Technology Buried Science in a Shallow Grave. "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-04). Madhav Kumar Nepal on threat of extreme right in Nepal. peoplesdispatch.org Madhav Kumar talks about the ongoing political instability in the country, the threat posed by the rising influence of the far right, and the path ahead for the left to defend Nepal's socialist and secular values enshrined in the constitution.
(2023-02-03). SGP Berlin state elections candidate Rippert: "It is necessary to combine the struggle against social austerity with the struggle against war!" wsws.org In this video, Socialist Equality Party (SGP) Honorary Chairman and candidate for the Berlin state elections Ulrich Rippert speaks about the growing social divisions worldwide and the social catastrophe in Berlin.
(2023-02-04). Mayo Clinic Minute: Postpartum depression is more than baby blues. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Postpartum depression is real. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 1 out of every 10 new moms suffer from it. It's much more than what's called the "baby blues" because it lasts longer and tends to be more severe. Symptoms include mood swings, anxiety, sadness, crying irritability and feeling overwhelmed. Prompt treatment is important, and Mayo Clinic experts say it works. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/WhmJuesp9ck Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 57) is…
(2023-02-03). Philip Foner's The Great Depression 1929 1932: A review. cpusa.org 
The History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol 11: The Great Depression 1929-1932, Philip Foner, International Publishers, New York: 2022. A poem appeared in the underground newspaper of the Metal Workers Union, an industrial union created by Communist activists at the beginning of the Depression. It captures the initial stages of …
(2023-02-03). Democracy in Theory and in Practice. dissidentvoice.org 
In the modern lexicon of supporters of the liberal ideology, the word "democracy" means a certain positive phenomenon, to the triumph of which humanity must certainly strive in all spheres of public life. They declared despotism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, totalitarianism and other similar negative things as the antipodes of this phenomenon. Many politicians in Western countries …
(2023-02-04). Musician Steve Van Zandt propagandizes for imperialist war. wsws.org Van Zandt's reactionary, bloodthirsty comments would have no significance whatsoever—they would simply be more pro-war propaganda from the wealthy upper middle class in America—were it not for his celebrity and his musical history.
(2023-02-04). Commemorating January 29, 2022: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Canada's Truckers Movement. globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-04). Ukraine between two empires. americanthinker.com How deep and reliable is the cooperation between the Iranian Islamic Republic, which believes that Christianity must disappear, and Christian Russia?
(2023-02-03). China's cross-border e-commerce exporters enjoy reduced shipment and return costs. ecns.cn In a move to support the development of emerging foreign trade business patterns, China's cross-border e-commerce enterprises will enjoy slashed shipment and return costs, according to an announcement jointly released by Chinese authorities on Wednesday.
(2023-02-03). SOEs on rise after 3-year reforms. ecns.cn China's State-owned enterprises are expected to post higher revenues and build more pioneers in modern industrial chains this year as the country has completed all the major tasks of its three-year action plan for the reform of SOEs (2020-22), said market observers and business executives on Thursday.
(2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protest Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protests Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca