americanthinker (2023-02-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ads pro-fascism. americanthinker.com A Christian group spent approximately $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements. AOC was not happy.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-15). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

WSWS (2023-02-16). "Rage Against the War Machine" rally promotes alliance between the "left" and the extreme right. wsws.org The February 19 rally, organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, is a reactionary political amalgam, including outright fascists, that has nothing to do with developing a genuine movement against imperialist war.

americanthinker (2023-02-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ads pro-fascism. americanthinker.com A Christian group spent approximately $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements. AOC was not happy.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-15). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

WSWS (2023-02-16). "Rage Against the War Machine" rally promotes alliance between the "left" and the extreme right. wsws.org The February 19 rally, organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, is a reactionary political amalgam, including outright fascists, that has nothing to do with developing a genuine movement against imperialist war.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-15). The More the Class Conflict Escalates, the More Important Anti-Imperialist Principles Become. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea Russell "Texas" Bentley "This war is not a war between Russians and Ukrainians," says the Texan Russell Bentley in a documentary interview about why he came to help fight for the Russian side after 2014's fascist U.S. coup in Ukraine. "It's not a Ukrainian civil war, it's really a war between good and evil. It's…

The Tricontinental (2023-02-15). 'Socialism is the best prophylaxis': The German Democratic Republic's Health Care System. mronline.org The German Democratic Republic (DDR) was a socialist state founded in East Germany in 1949 as a democratic, antifascist reaction to the Second World War and the subsequent restoration of monopoly capitalism in West Germany.

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-15). What is Reality? The Rise of Fake Truth. The Case for a "Constitution of Information" globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-02-15). Developing farming a national priority. ecns.cn The "No 1 central document "issued by the central authorities sends a strong signal about China's firm intention to invigorate its agricultural sector and vast countryside as the country embarks on a new leg of the journey toward socialist modernization.

Independent Jewish Voices (2023-02-15). Civil Society Groups to Canadian Heritage: Ditch IHRA Anti-Semitism Definition. socialistproject.ca Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has joined together with 30+ other Canadian organizations to call on the federal government to abandon prospective measures that would integrate a controversial antisemitism definition into granting procedures of the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH). Signatories of the letter include those that currently receive PCH funds or have in the past, as well as other organizations who share concerns about the impacts of the measures; among them, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Amnesty International Canada, the Canadian Arab Institute, the Jewish Faculty Netw…

Susan Norrie (2023-02-15). Telling the story of sovereignty versus colonial corporatisation. greenleft.org.au There is a disconnect of time scales between the relatively short-lived exploitative mining and Traditional Owners' ancient connection to Country. Susan Norrie writes about her and artist colleagues' approach to a commission.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-02-15). Don't Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. dissidentvoice.org If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. — President Dwight D. …

John W. Whitehead (2023-02-15). Don't Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. America Is a Prison Disguised as Paradise. globalresearch.ca

No to Israeli Dictatorship (2023-02-15). Demo Demands on Crissy Field. indybay.org The Golden Gate Bridge at their back, demonstrators on San Francisco's Crissy Field posed for photos as wind blew around banners, flags and signs reading "No to Israeli Dictatorship" and calling the current leadership corrupt.

Peter Boyle (2023-02-15). Turkish dictator Erdogan weaponising earthquake disaster against Kurds. greenleft.org.au Turkish dictator President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using the earthquake disaster as a weapon in his ongoing war on the Kurdish people, according to Zerebar Karimi.

Editor (2023-02-15). Lula flirts with Montezuma. mronline.org Montezuma was the last de facto emperor of the Aztecs. It is known that during his reign the Aztec Empire reached its peak in terms of expansionist activity, political reforms and infrastructure construction…

americanthinker (2023-02-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ads pro-fascism. americanthinker.com A Christian group spent approximately $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements. AOC was not happy.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-15). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

Marc Steiner (2023-02-14). Antifascism beyond Antifa: A conversation with Shane Burley and Maximillian Alvarez. therealnews.com

Marwa Osman (2023-02-14). Sanctions Keep Syrians Under Rubble—MES EP.197. thealtworld.com Today, the United States of America is the hub of global savagery, the source of absolute evil, and the real repository of terrorism that usurps peoples. After years of directing armed terrorist groups and seeking funding from Persian Gulf oil farms to destroy Syria, its infrastructure and foundations of the state's entity, strike its service institutions and logistical equipment, provide a complete cover for DAESH and support it to tear the nation's map through religious fascism, the American occupation sits on the Syrian oil wells, relying on its cheap tools to steal it. | It is truly a continuation of organize…

It's Going Down (2023-02-14). This Is America #181: Interview with Vishal Singh on Growing Gender Fascist Attacks; Roundup of Resistance to Cop City. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, February 13th, 2023. On today's episode, first we speak with antifascist journalist Vishal Singh, about being kicked off of Twitter, covering the far-Right in Southern California, and how Trump is rushing to double-down on anti-trans hatred. We then switch to our discussion, where we unpack recent attacks by Florida Governor,…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). Anti-fascists protest annual neo-Nazi gathering in Budapest. peoplesdispatch.org

americanthinker (2023-02-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ads pro-fascism. americanthinker.com A Christian group spent approximately $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements. AOC was not happy.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-15). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

Marc Steiner (2023-02-14). Antifascism beyond Antifa: A conversation with Shane Burley and Maximillian Alvarez. therealnews.com

Marwa Osman (2023-02-14). Sanctions Keep Syrians Under Rubble—MES EP.197. thealtworld.com Today, the United States of America is the hub of global savagery, the source of absolute evil, and the real repository of terrorism that usurps peoples. After years of directing armed terrorist groups and seeking funding from Persian Gulf oil farms to destroy Syria, its infrastructure and foundations of the state's entity, strike its service institutions and logistical equipment, provide a complete cover for DAESH and support it to tear the nation's map through religious fascism, the American occupation sits on the Syrian oil wells, relying on its cheap tools to steal it. | It is truly a continuation of organize…

It's Going Down (2023-02-14). This Is America #181: Interview with Vishal Singh on Growing Gender Fascist Attacks; Roundup of Resistance to Cop City. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, February 13th, 2023. On today's episode, first we speak with antifascist journalist Vishal Singh, about being kicked off of Twitter, covering the far-Right in Southern California, and how Trump is rushing to double-down on anti-trans hatred. We then switch to our discussion, where we unpack recent attacks by Florida Governor,…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). Anti-fascists protest annual neo-Nazi gathering in Budapest. peoplesdispatch.org

WSWS (2023-02-14). Opposition mounts in Israel to Netanyahu's fascistic government. wsws.org The right-wing layers leading the protests call for a general alliance of "democratic forces" on a capitalist, pro-austerity basis, seeking little more than a watering down of the government's plans for the judiciary and Netanyahu's removal from office.

Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. (2023-02-14). Valentine's Day: Look To Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance And Sex. popularresistance.org Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci has been quoted quite a lot in recent years amid our various political catastrophes from Trump to Covid-19 to climate collapse and the political center's seeming inability to resist any of the above. The most famous line from his Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935 while a political prisoner of the Mussolini regime, is probably: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." This is sometimes more loosely translated as ‚Ä&atilde…

kwjorinoco (2023-02-14). President Petro: Peru's Security Forces Behaving Like Nazis. orinocotribune.com This weekend, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, described the Peruvian police as "Nazis" for killing their own people. | "In Peru, they stomp their own people, like Nazis, breaking the American Convention on Human Rights," said the president of Colombia. | In this sense, President Petro demanded that all governments in America, including the United States, apply the American Convention on Human Rights; since "it should not be applied only to leftist governments. Drop your double standards." | El Presidente de Colombia Gustavo Petro contra el silencio de los medios: "La Policía del Perú marcha como nazis c…

Lisa Chiu (2023-02-14). U.S. power grid main target for domestic neo-Nazis. america.cgtn.com The energy sector was the target of 13 of the 16 cases involving neo-Nazis, according to a recent report. While the number of these cases have risen since 2016, the number of cases involving attack planning by jihadist groups has decreased.

Jim Miles (2023-02-14). "Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts": Feminism Inter/Nationalism and Palestine. globalresearch.ca

Raúl Zibechi (2023-02-15). El capitalismo de la impunidad. globalizacion.ca El reciente informe de Oxfam, ´La supervivencia de los más ricos ª, distribuido el mismo día que comenzaba el Foro de Davos, revela que el 1% más rico del planeta se apoderó de casi dos tercios de la nueva riqueza creada…

WSWS (2023-02-15). Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football. wsws.org The sponsors and organizers of the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona were at pains to keep anything about the multiple crises of world capitalism from finding its way into the festivities.

Editor (2023-02-14). Capitalism in Black and Blue. mronline.org Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-14). 'For the French working class, this pension reform is a gift to capitalism'. peoplesdispatch.org To understand more about the movement against pension reform in France, we spoke to Ramon Vila, the secretary of the trade union SUD Santé-Sociaux.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-15). What is Reality? The Rise of Fake Truth. The Case for a "Constitution of Information" globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-02-15). Developing farming a national priority. ecns.cn The "No 1 central document "issued by the central authorities sends a strong signal about China's firm intention to invigorate its agricultural sector and vast countryside as the country embarks on a new leg of the journey toward socialist modernization.

Fight Back (2023-02-14). Against Trotskyism: Revolution in two stages. fightbacknews.org The disagreement between Trotsky's "absurdly Left" (according to Lenin) theory of "Permanent Revolution" and the Leninist theory of revolution in two stages boils down to the question of how to deal with the question of the peasantry. | Trotsky argued for a socialist revolution that would be antagonistic to the tsar, the imperialist bourgeoisie and the broad mass of the peasantry, and that therefore depended on support from socialist revolutions in Western Europe, without which it would be crushed by counter-revolution. | Lenin, on the other hand, advocated a revolution in two stages. The first stage would be a…

Keep Transit Moving (2023-02-14). Transit Coalition Outlines Key Recommendations for Budget 2023. socialistproject.ca Important asks for the 2023 federal budget include permanent operational funding for transit systems, public intercity highway bus service, and accessibility and safety improvements. | A broad coalition of unions, environmental organizations, and rider advocates released its annual pre-budget submission with five recommendations for the 2023 federal budget. | The Keep Transit Moving Coalition published five central recommendations that would improve public transit for all Canadians: | Establish permanent federal funding for transit operations. | Create low-carbon rural and intercity public transit through the…

WSWS (2023-02-14). Fifteen years on: The fraud of Australian parliament's "stolen generations" apology. wsws.org This article, published on the World Socialist Web Site five years ago exposed the hypocrisy involved in the parliamentary events, such as yesterday's, hailing the anniversaries of the former Rudd Labor government's "national apology."

WSWS (2023-02-14). Democratic Socialists of America members in Congress join Republicans and Democrats in support of anti-China "spy balloon" resolution. wsws.org The DSA's support for the "spy balloon" resolution expresses the anti-socialist and pro-imperialist character of the Democratic Party faction.

WSWS (2023-02-14). Democratic Socialists of America members in Congress join Republicans and Democrats in support of anti-Chinese "spy balloon" resolution. wsws.org The DSA's support for the "spy balloon" resolution expresses the anti-socialist and pro-imperialist character of the Democratic Party faction.

WSWS (2023-02-14). On the 25th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site. wsws.org Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). Approaches to Prevention of Firearm Violence—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Dr Nathan's thoughtful letter highlights 2 often overlooked elements in suicide prevention: the profound effects of suicide among affected populations, and the critical role of policy in prevention. In the US in 2020, there were nearly 46‚ÄØ000 suicide deaths, or approximately 1 every 11 minutes. In the same year, an estimated 12.2 million adults in the US seriously considered suicide and 1.2 million made an attempt. For each suicide death, approximately 6 close family or friends are affected; those who have experienced such losses have an elevated risk of depression, posttraumatic stre…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). 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…

Susan Norrie (2023-02-15). Telling the story of sovereignty versus colonial corporatisation. greenleft.org.au There is a disconnect of time scales between the relatively short-lived exploitative mining and Traditional Owners' ancient connection to Country. Susan Norrie writes about her and artist colleagues' approach to a commission.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-02-15). Don't Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. dissidentvoice.org If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. — President Dwight D. …

No to Israeli Dictatorship (2023-02-15). Demo Demands on Crissy Field. indybay.org The Golden Gate Bridge at their back, demonstrators on San Francisco's Crissy Field posed for photos as wind blew around banners, flags and signs reading "No to Israeli Dictatorship" and calling the current leadership corrupt.

Peter Boyle (2023-02-15). Turkish dictator Erdogan weaponising earthquake disaster against Kurds. greenleft.org.au Turkish dictator President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using the earthquake disaster as a weapon in his ongoing war on the Kurdish people, according to Zerebar Karimi.

John W. Whitehead (2023-02-15). Don't Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. America Is a Prison Disguised as Paradise. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-02-14). Human rights complaints mount against Bukele's state of exception in El Salvador. wsws.org The massive scale of the roundups is comparable to those carried out by the military dictatorships in Central and South America during the 1970s and 1980s.

Staff (2023-02-14). The U.S. Has 750 Overseas Military Bases, and Continues to Build More to Encircle China. democracynow.org The United States struck a deal with the Philippines earlier this month to expand its military presence in its former colony to four additional bases, part of a years-long Pentagon buildup in the Asia-Pacific region meant to counter Chinese influence. The U.S. has about 750 overseas military bases in more than 80 countries, and Washington elites are pushing the country ever closer to conflict with China, says researcher David Vine. "I think the people of the United States absolutely do not want war," says Vine. He is a professor of anthropology at American University and co-founder of the Overseas Bas…

Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation. (2023-02-14). In Consequence To Collapsing US Empire, Russia's Strategic Aims. popularresistance.org Things are getting psychotic. As you listen to EU leaders, all parroting identical 'good news' speaking points, they nonetheless radiate basal disquietude — presumably a reflection of the psychic stress from, on the one hand, repeating 'Ukraine is winning: Russia's defeat is coming', when, on the other, they know the exact opposite to be true: That 'no way' can Europe defeat a large Russian army on the landmass of Eurasia. | Even the colossus of Washington confines the use of American military power to conflicts that Americans could afford to lose — wars lost to weak opponents that no one could gainsa…

Eric Zuesse (2023-02-14). India's Leader Narendra Modi Restores India to The Empire. globalresearch.ca

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-02-14). Ten Ways The US Is Out Of Line With The Entire World. popularresistance.org Out of the nearly 200 countries in the world, there is one country that does not behave like the others, even remotely. There is one country that is outside the norm in almost every regard. It's a rogue nation — and it's about time we called it to account! | The agents of the United States used to refer to any country that wasn't acting in the interests of the empire as a "rogue state." Countries like Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Russia, and Nauru were all labelled as such at various times. Nowadays, the U.S. government has a new expression that seems to mean the same thing. U.S. officials say…

ecns.cn (2023-02-14). Beijing to support companies to develop ChatGPT-like models. ecns.cn Beijing, home to more than 1,000 artificial intelligence companies, will support leading enterprises to develop ChatGPT-like models, as part of the municipality's broader efforts to be a pioneering AI hub.

ecns.cn (2023-02-14). China's Inner Mongolia expands wind power generation. ecns.cn Wind power generation by large-scale enterprises in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 101.99 billion kWh in 2022, up 8.8 year-on-year, according to the regional bureau of statistics.

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-14). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

Sharon Zhang (2023-02-13). Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Christian Super Bowl Ads That "Make Fascism Look Benign" truthout.org During the Super Bowl on Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) criticized advertisements by a Christian organization with deep conservative ties, saying that the ads normalize fascism. As part of a $100 million media campaign, a group called He Gets Us ran two ads during the Super Bowl on Sunday. As Lever News revealed earlier this month, He Gets Us is a subsidiary of the Servant… |

It's Going Down (2023-02-14). This Is America #181: Interview with Vishal Singh on Growing Gender Fascist Attacks; Roundup of Resistance to Cop City. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, February 13th, 2023. On today's episode, first we speak with antifascist journalist Vishal Singh, about being kicked off of Twitter, covering the far-Right in Southern California, and how Trump is rushing to double-down on anti-trans hatred. We then switch to our discussion, where we unpack recent attacks by Florida Governor,…

WSWS (2023-02-14). Opposition mounts in Israel to Netanyahu's fascistic government. wsws.org The right-wing layers leading the protests call for a general alliance of "democratic forces" on a capitalist, pro-austerity basis, seeking little more than a watering down of the government's plans for the judiciary and Netanyahu's removal from office.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-13). Antifascists Remove and Burn Neo-Nazi Flyers Targeting Lakeland, FL Community. itsgoingdown.org Report on antifascist clean-up of the Lakeland, Florida neighborhood, after neo-Nazis dropped flyers. On the 11th of February, the neo-Nazi group the Goyim Defense League (GDL), threw trash propaganda onto people's lawns and driveways in Lakeland, FL. The fliers were in bags weighted with corn and with rat food pellets, similar to incidents of KKK…

_____ (2023-02-13). Corruption and Weakness, What's Behind Washington's Love of Nuclear Brinkmanship. journal-neo.org It is a mystery for "educated Americans" as to why a "liberal" president would risk nuclear war. Biden's domestic policies certainly oppose tyranny and Naziism, brought to America by Trump and his army of hillbilly miscreants. He has cut taxes to workers and middle class and worked to undo some of Trump's insane policies regarding …

Ullrich Mies, Felix Feistel (2023-02-14). The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization. indybay.org Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one. | The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.

Sharon Zhang (2023-02-13). Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Christian Super Bowl Ads That "Make Fascism Look Benign" truthout.org During the Super Bowl on Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) criticized advertisements by a Christian organization with deep conservative ties, saying that the ads normalize fascism. As part of a $100 million media campaign, a group called He Gets Us ran two ads during the Super Bowl on Sunday. As Lever News revealed earlier this month, He Gets Us is a subsidiary of the Servant… |

It's Going Down (2023-02-14). This Is America #181: Interview with Vishal Singh on Growing Gender Fascist Attacks; Roundup of Resistance to Cop City. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, February 13th, 2023. On today's episode, first we speak with antifascist journalist Vishal Singh, about being kicked off of Twitter, covering the far-Right in Southern California, and how Trump is rushing to double-down on anti-trans hatred. We then switch to our discussion, where we unpack recent attacks by Florida Governor,…

WSWS (2023-02-14). Opposition mounts in Israel to Netanyahu's fascistic government. wsws.org The right-wing layers leading the protests call for a general alliance of "democratic forces" on a capitalist, pro-austerity basis, seeking little more than a watering down of the government's plans for the judiciary and Netanyahu's removal from office.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-13). Antifascists Remove and Burn Neo-Nazi Flyers Targeting Lakeland, FL Community. itsgoingdown.org Report on antifascist clean-up of the Lakeland, Florida neighborhood, after neo-Nazis dropped flyers. On the 11th of February, the neo-Nazi group the Goyim Defense League (GDL), threw trash propaganda onto people's lawns and driveways in Lakeland, FL. The fliers were in bags weighted with corn and with rat food pellets, similar to incidents of KKK…

_____ (2023-02-13). Corruption and Weakness, What's Behind Washington's Love of Nuclear Brinkmanship. journal-neo.org It is a mystery for "educated Americans" as to why a "liberal" president would risk nuclear war. Biden's domestic policies certainly oppose tyranny and Naziism, brought to America by Trump and his army of hillbilly miscreants. He has cut taxes to workers and middle class and worked to undo some of Trump's insane policies regarding …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-13). The Moral and Intellectual Disconnect between the Memories of Shoah and Today's Jewish State. transcend.org 6 Feb 2023 – Every time I hear about the Shoah or the Nazi genocide of the Jews, I can't help but make a sad and rage-filled link between it and the present day Israel — the officially Jewish State with echoes of the ideology that served as the foundation of Nazi Germany.

Jim Miles (2023-02-14). "Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts": Feminism Inter/Nationalism and Palestine. globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-13). (Português) A Ética de um Capitalismo Selvagem: A Corrupàßà£o das Americanas. transcend.org 10 fev 2023 – No Brasil, os cristà£os sà£o apenas cristà£os culturais que nà£o aprenderam nada do Jesus histórico que estava sempre do lado da vida, do pobre, do cego, do coxo e do desprezado. Por isso há tanta desigualdade social, das maiores do mundo. Porque falta sensibilidade, solidariedade, sentido humano.

Paul Gregoire (2023-02-13). Rachel Evans: 'Young people prefer socialism over capitalism'. greenleft.org.au NSW is heading towards an election and communities are wondering if a future Labor government will make the necessary changes. Paul Gregoire spoke to Rachel Evans, Socialist Alliance candidate for Heffron, about housing justice and her campaign.

Staff (2023-02-13). El capitalismo extremo invade las 'bigtechs', que afrontan una segunda oleada de despidos masivos. cubadebate.cu El libre mercado sin escrúpulos hace mella el modelo de negocio de las grandes tecnológicas que han expulsado a cientos de miles de trabajadores. En la cuna del idealismo tecnológico, Silicon Valley, algunos de sus fetiches, como Elon Musk, se arrojan a las redes de la extrema derecha.

Robert Reich (2023-02-13). The dark side of sports stadiums. nationofchange.org When it comes to stadium deals, the only winners are billionaires.

Fight Back (2023-02-14). Against Trotskyism: Revolution in two stages. fightbacknews.org The disagreement between Trotsky's "absurdly Left" (according to Lenin) theory of "Permanent Revolution" and the Leninist theory of revolution in two stages boils down to the question of how to deal with the question of the peasantry. | Trotsky argued for a socialist revolution that would be antagonistic to the tsar, the imperialist bourgeoisie and the broad mass of the peasantry, and that therefore depended on support from socialist revolutions in Western Europe, without which it would be crushed by counter-revolution. | Lenin, on the other hand, advocated a revolution in two stages. The first stage would be a…

WSWS (2023-02-14). Fifteen years on: The fraud of Australian parliament's "stolen generations" apology. wsws.org This article, published on the World Socialist Web Site five years ago exposed the hypocrisy involved in the parliamentary events, such as yesterday's, hailing the anniversaries of the former Rudd Labor government's "national apology."

WSWS (2023-02-14). Democratic Socialists of America members in Congress join Republicans and Democrats in support of anti-Chinese "spy balloon" resolution. wsws.org The DSA's support for the "spy balloon" resolution expresses the anti-socialist and pro-imperialist character of the Democratic Party faction.

WSWS (2023-02-14). On the 25th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site. wsws.org Twenty-five years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International began posting the World Socialist Web Site. In this video, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explains the background to the WSWS, reviews its record and contemporary significance and makes an appeal to all readers to donate to the WSWS and expand its readership.

Edward Hunt (2023-02-13). U.S. Anti-Socialism Resolution Overlooks Socialist Allies. fpif.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-13). Federal Bureau of Intimidation vs. International Solidarity: Interview with Omali Yeshitela (APSP) and Joe Iosbaker (FRSO). libya360.wordpress.com Orinoco Tribune Last Friday, Orinoco Tribune had the honor of interviewing Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) in response to recent repression and intimidation tactics launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) against him, the APSP, and the Uhuru Movement. On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided Yeshitela's residence in…

Staff (2023-02-13). La protección integral de los derechos humanos, elemento esencial para la viabilidad del socialismo. cubadebate.cu No es posible el socialismo sin la democracia socialista y esta debe caracterizarse por la participación popular como su elemento funcional y por la protección y la salvaguarda de los derechos humanos.

WSWS (2023-02-13). Sri Lankan workers require a socialist strategy to fight Wickremesinghe's class-war policies. wsws.org Wickremesinghe justified already-imposed IMF demands, declared that there would be no reduction in the new pay-as-you-earn taxes, and outlined future attacks.

Meghan Bodette (2023-02-13). The Earthquake in Turkey and Syria is Not Just a Natural Disaster. socialistproject.ca The earthquake that devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria in early February was a natural disaster — but the decades of war, sanctions and exploitation that made it so deadly were man-made. If the earthquake recovery can become a recovery from endless war and corrupt, far-right nationalist rule, the people of the region will be better protected from all future disasters — natural or otherwise. | After four decades of war against its own Kurdish population and ten years of intervention in Syria's conflict, the Turkish national security state is omnipresent in southeastern Turkey and northern…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). 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…

Editor (2023-02-13). When the WPA Created Over 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers. scheerpost.com By Algernon Austin / CEPR In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943. While data on the racial composition of WPA workers isn't available for all of these years, the data we have for 1939, 1941, and 1942 make clear that the WPA …

No to Israeli Dictatorship (2023-02-14). Demo Demands on Crissy Field. indybay.org The Golden Gate Bridge at their back, demonstrators on San Francisco's Crissy Field posed for photos as wind blew around banners, flags and signs reading "No to Israeli Dictatorship" and calling the current leadership corrupt.

WSWS (2023-02-14). Human rights complaints mount against Bukele's state of exception in El Salvador. wsws.org The massive scale of the roundups is comparable to those carried out by the military dictatorships in Central and South America during the 1970s and 1980s.

Editor (2023-02-13). Review of "Critique of the Gotha Program," by Karl Marx. mronline.org This new edition of Marx's 1875 'Critique of the Gotha Program' comes with a few surprises in translation for Marxists who have previously interpreted it as justification for the continuation of wage-labour and commodity production, under the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in the 'first phase' of socialism/communism.

Dean Baker (2023-02-13). Aging Populations and Great Power Politics: The Problem is for the Elites, not the Masses. cepr.net We recently got new data showing that China's population shrunk last year. It is now projected to see its population continue to decline through the rest of this century. This is being portrayed as a disaster for China. A similar disaster has already hit Japan, South Korea, Italy and many other wealthy countries. People in …

Volker Schuhmacher, Roland Rottenfusser (2023-02-13). The brainwashing plant and Against forgetting. indybay.org Klaus Schwab created a suitable stage for his ideology in the WEF. Wikipedia quotes Forbes magazine, "According to Forbes magazine, the WEF's Great Reset agenda is 'another example of how rich, powerful elites assuage their consciences with phony efforts to help the masses, making themselves even richer and more powerful in the process'" (15).

Eric Zuesse (2023-02-14). India's Leader Narendra Modi Restores India to The Empire. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-02-13). The Leopard's Tale: U.S. Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree. strategic-culture.org At the height of the media frenzy, January 19-24, over Germany not serving empire by hustling its Leopard tanks off to Ukraine and permitting the 15 countries that have them to do so also, commander Richardson acknowledged that Washington had requested nine Latin American countries to donate their Soviet-era Russian weapons to Kiev, so Telesur reported, January 20.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-13). Lula Flirts with Montezuma. libya360.wordpress.com Quantum Bird Montezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, and Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador Montezuma was the last de facto emperor of the Aztecs. It is known that during his reign the Aztec Empire reached its peak in terms of expansionist activity, political reforms and infrastructure construction. On the other hand, according to the more popular…

rqorinoco (2023-02-13). The War of Terror of a Rogue Superpower: Cui Bono? orinocotribune.com By Pepe Escobar | When it comes to the Global South, what the Hersh report imprints is Rogue Superpower, in giant blood red letters, as state sponsor of terrorism. | Everyone with a brain already knew the Empire did it. Now Arguably the most incandescent nugget in Hersh's narrati…

Rania Khalek (2023-02-13). US Eyes Resources In Latin America, Escalates Against China, w/ Ben Norton. thealtworld.com With the United States hyper focused on Russia and China, it's easy to forget that the empire is still up to its old tricks in the rest of the Global South. What does the insatiable U.S. imperialist appetite mean for the resource-rich countries of Latin America? | After all, that copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas in Peru, the lithium in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, and the oil in Venezuela isn't gonna steal itself. How is the Cold War with Russia and China playing out throughout the region as the United States dusts off the so-called Monroe Doctrine? And how can this new multipolar era bene…

ecns.cn (2023-02-14). Beijing to support companies to develop ChatGPT-like models. ecns.cn Beijing, home to more than 1,000 artificial intelligence companies, will support leading enterprises to develop ChatGPT-like models, as part of the municipality's broader efforts to be a pioneering AI hub.

ecns.cn (2023-02-14). China's Inner Mongolia expands wind power generation. ecns.cn Wind power generation by large-scale enterprises in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 101.99 billion kWh in 2022, up 8.8 year-on-year, according to the regional bureau of statistics.

Dana Sanchez (2023-02-13). Just Like The Movie: Short Seller Report Forces Billionaire Adani into Margin Call With Banks. moguldom.com Billionaire businessman Gautam Adani was margin called on a $1.1 billion loan after his companies' stocks lost billions of dollars in market value following a Jan. 24 report by U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research that alleged massive ongoing accounting fraud and stock manipulation by the Indian conglomerate. The flagship company, Adani Enterprises is under investigation by …

Monica Moorehead (2023-02-13). Super Bowl can't disguise systemic racism, big profits. workers.org The most popular one-day sports event in the U.S. happened on Feb. 12 this year in Glendale, Arizona — Super Bowl LVII. The two teams that played for the National Football League championship were the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City team — whose ownership to this day refuses to . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-02-13). Senior Chinese diplomat to visit France, Italy, Hungary, Russia, attend 59th Munich Security Conference in Germany. ecns.cn Wang Yi will visit France, Italy, Hungary and Russia from Feb. 14 to 22 at the invitation of the governments of the four countries, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced on Monday.

Sharon Zhang (2023-02-13). Sanders Isn't Afraid to Subpoena Starbucks CEO to Get Him to Appear in Congress. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), now in charge of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is pledging to go after executives for Starbucks, Big Pharma and railroads over their rampant greed — and he's not afraid to use his subpoena power to do so. The pharmaceutical industry is one of his top targets, Sanders is saying, for working for decades to fleece the American… |

Julie Hollar (2023-02-13). 60 Minutes' weight-loss tip: Don't bite the hand that feeds you. mronline.org People in the United States have grown accustomed to endless pharmaceutical ads when watching TV. The industry is the fourth-biggest spender on TV advertising in the country—one of only two in the world (along with New Zealand) that allows such direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.

JANET (2023-02-12). Is the Democratic Party the alternative to fascism, or its enabler? iacenter.org By Arjae Red February 9, 2023 Feb. 7 — The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question open: Can the Democratic Party really provide a solution to the fascist menace? Some might answer that the Democratic Party isn't the ideal alternative but the lesser of two evils. Others would say the Democrats are an inadequate instrument for totally defeating the Republicans and MAGA…

Cindy Forster, Kawsachun News. (2023-02-12). Interview: Taking Down A Fascist. popularresistance.org We were in our distinct regions when the coup took place. I was the first to leave my province because we met with the grassroots organizations, and they decided, "You are the representative of this province. While we defend our [vote] in the streets, you need to defend it in Parliament. Whatever it takes, you have to get back into Parliament." I was able to re-enter, and I stayed there, while the rest were on the outside in the streets, communicating with us —they told us everything that was happening— they were being tear-gassed and arrested, they were chased, some lost their shoes, their aguayos or…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-12). Evil and "Terribly Normal People" libya360.wordpress.com Rosa Miriam Elizalde The new banality of evil is tourism, capable of turning a Nazi concentration camp, where 200,000 people were interned between 1936 and 1945, into an object of consumption. In Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, more than 30,000 died from disease, starvation, medical experiments, torture or the gas chamber. It was a center conceived by…

JANET (2023-02-12). Is the Democratic Party the alternative to fascism, or its enabler? iacenter.org By Arjae Red February 9, 2023 Feb. 7 — The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question open: Can the Democratic Party really provide a solution to the fascist menace? Some might answer that the Democratic Party isn't the ideal alternative but the lesser of two evils. Others would say the Democrats are an inadequate instrument for totally defeating the Republicans and MAGA…

Cindy Forster, Kawsachun News. (2023-02-12). Interview: Taking Down A Fascist. popularresistance.org We were in our distinct regions when the coup took place. I was the first to leave my province because we met with the grassroots organizations, and they decided, "You are the representative of this province. While we defend our [vote] in the streets, you need to defend it in Parliament. Whatever it takes, you have to get back into Parliament." I was able to re-enter, and I stayed there, while the rest were on the outside in the streets, communicating with us —they told us everything that was happening— they were being tear-gassed and arrested, they were chased, some lost their shoes, their aguayos or…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-12). Evil and "Terribly Normal People" libya360.wordpress.com Rosa Miriam Elizalde The new banality of evil is tourism, capable of turning a Nazi concentration camp, where 200,000 people were interned between 1936 and 1945, into an object of consumption. In Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, more than 30,000 died from disease, starvation, medical experiments, torture or the gas chamber. It was a center conceived by…

Staff (2023-02-12). Estamos obligados a forjar nuevos valores y esperanzas para nuestros pueblos. cubadebate.cu El mundo vive una crisis sistémica estructural: económica, energética, alimentaria, ambiental, social, civilizatoria. Y no se vislumbran respuestas globales, porque el capitalismo no es capaz de estructurarlas, sino que es el causante de su agudización, para lo cual sólo tiene ante sí la exacerbación de conflictos bélicos y la modernización y expansión de sus arsenales cada vez más letales.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-12). How the Super-Rich Destroy Our Minds. globalresearch.ca

Roger Waters (2023-02-12). Roger Waters United Nations Speech: Ceasefire Now! socialistproject.ca Roger Waters Addresses United Nations February 8, 2023. | "The invasion of Ukraine by The Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms. | "We the people, want universal human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or nationality. To be clear, that would include but would not be limited to the right to life and property under the law, for instance, Ukrainians, and for instance Palestinians.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-02-12). Saturday 3/11: Good Housing is a Right! (Online Townall). indybay.org Zoom (Online) | Zoom info: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 | Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 | Passcode: 340756…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-12). 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…

No to Israeli Dictatorship (2023-02-12). Demo Demands on Crissy Field. indybay.org The Golden Gate Bridge at their back, demonstrators on San Francisco's Crissy Field posed for photos as wind blew around banners, flags and signs reading "No to Israeli Dictatorship" and calling the current leadership corrupt.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-12). Dying by Killing: The US and its Manifest Destiny. libya360.wordpress.com Marcos Roitman Rosenmann The fear of disappearing as a hegemonic power awakens the survival instinct. The United States (US) has entered a dangerous drift, the end of which puts the future of humanity at risk. If a nuclear holocaust is on the horizon, it is no coincidence. The cultural reason of the West is facing…

americanthinker (2023-02-12). Africa a medical mystery to the globalist COVID elites. americanthinker.com Africans weathered the COVID-19 pandemic far better than those nations that followed masks, lockdowns, and mass vaccinations. That's a mystery to WHO, but not to the rest of us.

Volker Schuhmacher, Roland Rottenfusser (2023-02-12). The brainwashing plant and Against forgetting. indybay.org Klaus Schwab created a suitable stage for his ideology in the WEF. Wikipedia quotes Forbes magazine, "According to Forbes magazine, the WEF's Great Reset agenda is 'another example of how rich, powerful elites assuage their consciences with phony efforts to help the masses, making themselves even richer and more powerful in the process'" (15).

Anonymous103 (2023-02-12). No To NATO Song by Mistahi. southfront.org We present to you the song of a friend of SouthFront This song by Mistahi goes out to all peace loving people who are taking a courageous stand against US empire building and expansion of the aggressive, warmongering military alliance, NATO.

People's Dispatch. (2023-02-12). German Workers Across Sectors Protest Fall In Real Wages. popularresistance.org On Thursday, February 9, public service workers from sectors, including health care, day-care, city administration, public transport, water distribution, universities, and municipal waste management, went on a warning strike protesting low wages and poor working conditions. The protest took place in the States of Berlin, North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), and Hesse, among others, | Over 3,500 people, including professionals from the state-owned Vivantes Hospitals, Charite-Berlin University of Medicine, Berlin Waste Management (BSR), and other public sector enterprises demonstrated at Oranienplatz in Berlin on Thursday…

ecns.cn (2023-02-12). U.S. restrictions on Chinese property ownership violate international trade rules: Chinese FM. ecns.cn The generalization of the concept of national security and the politicization of economic and trade investment of the U.S. side violate the principles of the market economy and international trade rules, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular news briefing on Friday.

Roy Landersen (2023-02-11). Defend Ukraine independence! Defeat Moscow's invasion! themilitant.com Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing forces in preparation for a deadly spring offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military, backed by volunteers, is preparing to repulse Moscow's attacks and launch a counter-offensive. | Putin claims his war in Ukraine aims at defeating "Nazism," like Stalin's was against fascist Germany in World War II. | His accusation stands reality on its head. The government in Ukraine is similar to other liberal capitalist regimes around the world. In Germany the fascists were funded and promoted by the capitalist class to crush a rising working-class m…

Anonymous103 (2023-02-11). Ukrainian Nazi Who Killed Russian Prisoners Of War Identified. Reward Announced For His Capture (video 21+). southfront.org The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed authenticity of the video showing Ukrainian soldiers executing…

Monica Moorehead (2023-02-11). Class oppression is primary; national oppression is not secondary! workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. Comrades and friends, Sam Marcy made the following quote at the end of his 1984 article "Black nationalism and white chauvinism: Marxism . . . |

Staff (2023-02-12). Estamos obligados a forjar nuevos valores y esperanzas para nuestros pueblos. cubadebate.cu El mundo vive una crisis sistémica estructural: económica, energética, alimentaria, ambiental, social, civilizatoria. Y no se vislumbran respuestas globales, porque el capitalismo no es capaz de estructurarlas, sino que es el causante de su agudización, para lo cual sólo tiene ante sí la exacerbación de conflictos bélicos y la modernización y expansión de sus arsenales cada vez más letales.

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-02-11). "Crony capitalism" as an economic strategy. mronline.org Gautam Adani's calling Hindenburg's allegations of fraud against him an attack on the Indian nation is a matter of particular significance.

WSWS (2023-02-11). Ottawa and Quebec intensify their efforts to block refugees from filing asylum claims. wsws.org Threatened by growing working-class opposition, the ruling class in Quebec and across Canada is whipping up chauvinism to scapegoat immigrants for the social crisis caused by capitalism and to split the working class along ethno-linguistic and religious lines.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-02-12). Saturday 3/11: Good Housing is a Right! (Online Townall). indybay.org Zoom (Online) | Zoom info: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 | Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 | Passcode: 340756…

Janice Lynn (2023-02-11). 'Reforms' can't get rid of police brutality, it's key to capitalist rule. themilitant.com ATLANTA — Since the Jan. 7 beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis cops that led to his death three days later, workers have been discussing the root cause of police violence and the road to prevent further cop brutality and killings. As part of this, Atlanta members of the Socialist Workers Party spoke with workers door to door in Riverdale, Ellenwood and here Feb. 4-5. | Janice Lynn and Marklyn Wilson talked with Latoya Walker in Riverdale Feb. 4. She is African American and works as an esthetician. "I think the police need better training," Walker said. | "The Socialist Workers Party explains that the police…

WSWS (2023-02-11). Ulrich Rippert: "The strength of our party is the historical tradition it represents." wsws.org The following speech was given by Ulrich Rippert, the honorary chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and candidate in the Berlin state elections, at the SGP's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

WSWS (2023-02-11). Sosyalist E≈üitlik Grubu's Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi calls for a vote for the SGP: "An international movement against the war must be built in the working class and youth!" wsws.org We publish here an appeal by Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) in the Berlin elections on February 12. Ate≈üàßi is a leading member of the Sosyalist E≈üitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey.

WSWS (2023-02-11). Ottawa and Quebec intensify their efforts to block refugees from filing asylum claims. wsws.org Threatened by growing working-class opposition, the ruling class in Quebec and across Canada is whipping up chauvinism to scapegoat immigrants for the social crisis caused by capitalism and to split the working class along ethno-linguistic and religious lines.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-02-12). Saturday 3/11: Good Housing is a Right! (Online Townall). indybay.org Zoom (Online) | Zoom info: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 | Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 | Passcode: 340756…

Janice Lynn (2023-02-11). 'Reforms' can't get rid of police brutality, it's key to capitalist rule. themilitant.com ATLANTA — Since the Jan. 7 beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis cops that led to his death three days later, workers have been discussing the root cause of police violence and the road to prevent further cop brutality and killings. As part of this, Atlanta members of the Socialist Workers Party spoke with workers door to door in Riverdale, Ellenwood and here Feb. 4-5. | Janice Lynn and Marklyn Wilson talked with Latoya Walker in Riverdale Feb. 4. She is African American and works as an esthetician. "I think the police need better training," Walker said. | "The Socialist Workers Party explains that the police…

WSWS (2023-02-11). Ulrich Rippert: "The strength of our party is the historical tradition it represents." wsws.org The following speech was given by Ulrich Rippert, the honorary chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and candidate in the Berlin state elections, at the SGP's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

WSWS (2023-02-11). Sosyalist E≈üitlik Grubu's Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi calls for a vote for the SGP: "An international movement against the war must be built in the working class and youth!" wsws.org We publish here an appeal by Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) in the Berlin elections on February 12. Ate≈üàßi is a leading member of the Sosyalist E≈üitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey.

WSWS (2023-02-11). Sosyalist Isitlik Grubu's Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi calls for a vote for the SGP: "An international movement against the war must be built in the working class and youth!" wsws.org We publish here an appeal by Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) in the Berlin elections on February 12. Ate≈üàßi is a leading member of the Sosyalist Isitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey.

WSWS (2023-02-11). The international significance of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei election campaign in Berlin. wsws.org Against the war madness and social devastation, a powerful movement of the working class is developing all over the world. The SGP election campaign has given it a voice and a socialist perspective.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-12). 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…

Graham Peebles (2023-02-11). Mental Health Illness: A Global Tragedy by Design. dissidentvoice.org After being ignored and scoffed at for generations, there is now growing awareness of the legitimacy and seriousness of mental health illness; of the debilitating, often suffocating, impact conditions such as depression and anxiety have on individuals, as well as the broader societal impact. Mental health illness is a modern-day tragedy of global proportions; while …

No to Israeli Dictatorship (2023-02-12). Demo Demands on Crissy Field. indybay.org The Golden Gate Bridge at their back, demonstrators on San Francisco's Crissy Field posed for photos as wind blew around banners, flags and signs reading "No to Israeli Dictatorship" and calling the current leadership corrupt.

Terry Evans (2023-02-11). Earthquake hits Turkey, Syria, sets off social calamity. themilitant.com A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria Feb. 6, triggering a social catastrophe. More than 11,000 people have been killed. Rescue efforts, with international help, are continuing. | Southern Turkey is home to many of the country's Kurds, long oppressed by the Turkish rulers. In Syria hard-hit locations include areas under the control of rebel groups challenging the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship, as well as camps housing millions of refugees displaced as a result of the country's civil war. | The scale of the deaths and destruction was severely amplified by the refusal of ca…

Volker Schuhmacher, Roland Rottenfusser (2023-02-12). The brainwashing plant and Against forgetting. indybay.org Klaus Schwab created a suitable stage for his ideology in the WEF. Wikipedia quotes Forbes magazine, "According to Forbes magazine, the WEF's Great Reset agenda is 'another example of how rich, powerful elites assuage their consciences with phony efforts to help the masses, making themselves even richer and more powerful in the process'" (15).

WSWS (2023-02-11). The mass strike movement, war and the revolutionary crisis in Europe. wsws.org What is emerging across Europe is an objectively revolutionary situation. The alternatives are as starkly posed as they were at the outbreak of World War I, over a century ago. Either the capitalist class plunges Europe and the world into a global war between nuclear-armed states, or the working class takes power out of the hands of the warmongering ruling elites.

Atilio Borón (2023-02-11). Mike Pompeo's Confessions. orinocotribune.com By Atilio A. Boron Feb 7, 2023 | The list of blundering diagnostic errors and outbursts of all kinds contained in that book is phenomenal. So too is his lack of understanding of today's world and the challenges that beset the empire. | Reading Mike Pompeo's memoir, Never give an inch, I couldn't help but compare him to the figure and personality traits of another Italian-American celebrity: Al Capone. And not only because of a certain physical resemblance and the common Italian ancestry of both characters. In effect, Pompeo's great-grandparents arrived in the United States in 1899, the year in which, preci…

Anonymous103 (2023-02-11). Military Overview: Russian Missiles, UAVs Damaged About Dozen Of Ukrainian Energy Facilities. southfront.org substation damaged in the Khmelnitsky region | On February 10, dozens of Russian missiles and UAVs hit the territory of Ukraine. On February 11, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the attack was successful. | The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a massive strike with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, on critical energy infrastructure facilities that ensured the functioning of enterprises of the military-industrial complex and the tr…

ecns.cn (2023-02-11). Namibia welcomes more Chinese companies in green energy sector. ecns.cn Namibia expects more Chinese enterprises' participation in the development of Namibia's green energy sector, particularly the green hydrogen industry, President Hage Geingob said Thursday.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-11). German workers across sectors protest fall in real wages. peoplesdispatch.org On Thursday, February 9, public service workers from sectors, including health care, day-care, city administration, public transport, water distribution, universities, and municipal waste management, went on a warning strike protesting low wages and poor working conditions. The protest took place in the States of Berlin, North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), and Hesse, among others, | Over 3, 0 people, including professionals from the state-owned Vivantes Hospitals, Charite-Berlin University of Medicine, Berlin Waste Management (BSR), and other public sector enterprises demonstrated at Oranienplatz in Berlin on Thursday…

ecns.cn (2023-02-12). U.S. restrictions on Chinese property ownership violate international trade rules: Chinese FM. ecns.cn The generalization of the concept of national security and the politicization of economic and trade investment of the U.S. side violate the principles of the market economy and international trade rules, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular news briefing on Friday.

Arjae Red (2023-02-09). Is the Democratic Party the alternative to fascism, or its enabler? workers.org Feb. 7 — The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question . . . |

Staff (2023-02-09). Anti-Fascists Are Adapting to a Strange New World. truthout.org In this episode of "Movement Memos," host Kelly Hayes and Shane Burley, editor of No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis, discuss the state of the far right, anti-fascism and how we can build power and sustain empathy in these times. Music by Son Monarcas and David Celeste Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. |

WSWS (2023-02-10). Stepping up US war preparations against China, Victoria Nuland visits South Asia. wsws.org Nulan, who served under former US presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, played a key role in the 2014 fascist-led coup that overthrew the pro-Russian Ukraine government of President Viktor Yanukovich.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-09). Lidia Patty Mullisaca: Taking Down a Fascist. libya360.wordpress.com Cindy Forster Over two years ago, Lidia Patty Mullisaca of the indigenous Kallawaya nation, in rural La Paz, formally accused the leaders of Bolivia's 2019 coup for terrorism. This lawsuit led to the recent arrest of far-right leader Fernando Camacho. No one coached her. Her decisions hold a mirror to the thinking of Bolivia's masses….

Arjae Red (2023-02-09). Is the Democratic Party the alternative to fascism, or its enabler? workers.org Feb. 7 — The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question . . . |

Staff (2023-02-09). Anti-Fascists Are Adapting to a Strange New World. truthout.org In this episode of "Movement Memos," host Kelly Hayes and Shane Burley, editor of No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis, discuss the state of the far right, anti-fascism and how we can build power and sustain empathy in these times. Music by Son Monarcas and David Celeste Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. |

WSWS (2023-02-10). Stepping up US war preparations against China, Victoria Nuland visits South Asia. wsws.org Nulan, who served under former US presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, played a key role in the 2014 fascist-led coup that overthrew the pro-Russian Ukraine government of President Viktor Yanukovich.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-09). Lidia Patty Mullisaca: Taking Down a Fascist. libya360.wordpress.com Cindy Forster Over two years ago, Lidia Patty Mullisaca of the indigenous Kallawaya nation, in rural La Paz, formally accused the leaders of Bolivia's 2019 coup for terrorism. This lawsuit led to the recent arrest of far-right leader Fernando Camacho. No one coached her. Her decisions hold a mirror to the thinking of Bolivia's masses….

Anonymous103 (2023-02-09). Kiev Regime Planning False Flag Attacks On Kramatorsk Hospitals To Frame Russia. southfront.org Illustrative ImageFaced with months of military failures, as well as the prospect of a virtually imminent Russian offensive, the Neo-Nazi junta is desperate to sway public opinion in its favor. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | On February 5, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced it discovered the Kiev regime's plot to detonate explosive devices at hospitals in Kramatorsk and then blame Moscow. Although the Russian military didn't disclose how exactly it acquired the…

WSWS (2023-02-10). Gregor Link: "We fight for a united international movement of the working class against the war and against capitalism" wsws.org The following speech was delivered by Gregor Link on February 4 on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin at the election rally of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Link is a spokesman for its youth organization, the IYSSE.

David Sirota (2023-02-09). Introducing our new podcast: 'Movies vs Capitalism'. mronline.org The Lever's new movie podcast launches.

Marie Kelly (2023-02-09). Capitalism's undervaluation of nursing care. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. WW photo In "High Tech/Low Pay," Sam Marcy spoke of the feminization of labor, as more women worked jobs that had been . . . |

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2023-02-09). The working class ‚àí gravediggers of capitalism. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. WW PHOTO Comrades and friends, the working class in this country hails from all nationalities, all races, colors, gender and sexual identities, . . . |

WSWS (2023-02-10). Video of SGP anti-war rally published with English subtitles. wsws.org On February 4, as part of its campaign for the Berlin elections, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party – SGP) held a central rally against the Ukrainian war and the return of German militarism at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, attended by over 300 people.

Speak Out Socialists (2023-02-09). Saturday 3/11: Good Housing is a Right! (Online Townall). indybay.org Zoom (Online) | Zoom info: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 | Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 | Passcode: 340756…

WSWS (2023-02-09). Socialist program needed to halt rate rise and cost-of-living crisis in Australia. wsws.org Tuesday's interest rate hike shows that the March 25 New South Wales state election will be held under conditions of an intensifying social and political crisis.

Brian Shea (2023-02-09). Disabled people are proletarians worldwide. workers.org Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar "Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles today." Go to youtu.be/5Arb33Q8SN0 to view the webinar. Brian Shea. PHOTO: Howard Rotman In "The Communist Manifesto," Marx and Engels characterize the working class as being the revolutionary gravediggers of . . . |

manager (2023-02-09). When the WPA Created Over 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers. cepr.net In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943. While data on the racial composition of WPA workers isn't available for all of these years, the data we have for 1939, 1941, and 1942 make clear that the WPA employed hundreds of …

Bill Blum (2023-02-10). Unequal Justice: The U.S. Supreme Court is Reactionary, But Is it Also Corrupt? progressive.org Besides their ultra-right rulings, the Supreme Court Justices have a well-documented history of misconduct.

WSWS (2023-02-09). New Zealand: Demands for Maori "co-governance" intensify. wsws.org Labour and the media are seeking to divert attention from the worsening social crisis facing all workers and channel rising anger into reactionary conflicts over race.

ecns.cn (2023-02-10). Namibia welcomes more Chinese companies in green energy sector. ecns.cn Namibia expects more Chinese enterprises' participation in the development of Namibia's green energy sector, particularly the green hydrogen industry, President Hage Geingob said Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-02-09). HK chief executive urges local enterprises to expand business along BRI. ecns.cn Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is encouraging local companies to expand business opportunities in countries along China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

ecns.cn (2023-02-09). ChatGPT to challenge search engines: expert. ecns.cn With the advent of ChatGPT, typical search engines will face huge challenges, said Chen Yunwen, CEO of Daguan Grand, an AI enterprise based in Shanghai.

ecns.cn (2023-02-09). China central SOE net profits up 35.71 pct in three years. ecns.cn Net profits at China's centrally administrated state-owned enterprises (SOEs) rose 35.71 percent to 1.9 trillion yuan (about 279.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2022 from that achieved in 2020, official data showed.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Neo-Nazi couple arrested in plot to attack Baltimore-area substations. wsws.org Two neo-Nazis, including the founder of the Atomwaffen fascist terrorist group, Brandon Russell, are accused of conspiring to attack several energy facilities in Maryland in the hopes of causing a "cascading failure."

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-02-08). Biden faces down Republican fascists at State of the Union. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—In his State of the Union message to the Congress and the people Tuesday night, President Joe Biden faced many of the same fascist Republican lawmakers in the chamber who had backed an attempted coup to prevent him from taking office in January 2021. Sitting in back of him as he delivered his second State …

Staff (2023-02-08). We Can't Just Let Blinken Give Israeli Apartheid the US Stamp of Approval. truthout.org On his recent visit to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the U.S.'s "ironclad" support for the Israeli state, which recently voted in the most fascist, anti-Palestinian, far right government in its history. In a stunning display of doublespeak, Blinken said: It does seem true that the relationship between Israel and U.S. is rooted in "shared values," as Blinken suggests… |

Editor (2023-02-08). Facebook protects Nazis to protect Ukraine proxy war. mronline.org Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company no longer considers Ukraine's Azov Regiment to be a "dangerous organization."

WSWS (2023-02-08). Neo-Nazi couple arrested in plot to attack Baltimore-area substations. wsws.org Two neo-Nazis, including the founder of the Atomwaffen fascist terrorist group, Brandon Russell, are accused of conspiring to attack several energy facilities in Maryland in the hopes of causing a "cascading failure."

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-02-08). Biden faces down Republican fascists at State of the Union. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—In his State of the Union message to the Congress and the people Tuesday night, President Joe Biden faced many of the same fascist Republican lawmakers in the chamber who had backed an attempted coup to prevent him from taking office in January 2021. Sitting in back of him as he delivered his second State …

Staff (2023-02-08). We Can't Just Let Blinken Give Israeli Apartheid the US Stamp of Approval. truthout.org On his recent visit to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the U.S.'s "ironclad" support for the Israeli state, which recently voted in the most fascist, anti-Palestinian, far right government in its history. In a stunning display of doublespeak, Blinken said: It does seem true that the relationship between Israel and U.S. is rooted in "shared values," as Blinken suggests… |

Editor (2023-02-08). Facebook protects Nazis to protect Ukraine proxy war. mronline.org Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company no longer considers Ukraine's Azov Regiment to be a "dangerous organization."

David Sirota (2023-02-09). Introducing our new podcast: 'Movies vs Capitalism'. mronline.org The Lever's new movie podcast launches.

scorinoco (2023-02-08). Neo-Compradors: The Leftist Foot Soldiers of Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Sammy Ismail Feb 2, 2023 | A review of James Petras' NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism. | NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism by James Petras scientifically unpacks imperialism in contemporary communities of the global south. Prompted by the premise that capitalism, and by extension imperialism, is constantly evolving in an effort to perpetuate itself. James Petras takes neo-compradors as the unit of analysis for his study of imperialism. | The purpose of studies like this is a profound frustration with contemporary leftist discourse which has distorted Scientific Socialism, under the pretext of modern…

Speak Out Socialists (2023-02-09). Saturday 3/11: Good Housing is a Right! (Online Townall). indybay.org Zoom (Online) | Zoom info: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09 | Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683 | Passcode: 340756…

WSWS (2023-02-09). Socialist program needed to halt rate rise and cost-of-living crisis in Australia. wsws.org Tuesday's interest rate hike shows that the March 25 New South Wales state election will be held under conditions of an intensifying social and political crisis.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Christoph Vandreier: "We unite workers across all borders in the fight against war" wsws.org The following speech was delivered by the lead candidate and chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SGP), Christoph Vandreier, at the party's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Johannes Stern: "The SGP's anti-war rally is in the tradition of Karl Liebknecht" wsws.org On February 4, the Socialist Equality Party held a rally against the war in Ukraine and the return of German militarism as part of its election campaign for the Berlin election at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. We publish here the opening remarks of Johannes Stern, who moderated the rally.

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Bournemouth nurse speaks on Britain's NHS strike. wsws.org Dannielle Gillingham spoke to World Socialist Web Site reporters during the February 6-7 strike by hundreds of thousands of National Health Service nurses and ambulance workers—the largest strike in the NHS since its foundation 75 years ago.

Editor (2023-02-08). A masterpiece of Socialist Realism. mronline.org BRUNI DE LA MOTTE recommends a classic of East German literature that gives a human face to difficult political choices.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). 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…

Yves Engler (2023-02-08). Devil is in the Details of "Holocaust Education" dissidentvoice.org As a general principle "education" about racism and the horrors a vile ideology has inflicted upon the world is a good thing and should be encouraged. But as is the case with many things the devil is in details. This is especially true of history. For example, over many decades children were taught that Scottish …

teleSUR (2023-02-08). Peruvian Youth Raise Their Music Against State Terrorism. telesurenglish.net Hip hop, rock, reggae, and punk songs are accompanying the protests that thousands of Peruvians maintain firmly against President Dina Boluarte. | RELATED: | Displaying unprecedented creativity, Peruvian youth have composed songs that reflect the discontent of those who raise their voices against the political class, economic elites, structural racism, and State terrorism. | "This democracy is no longer democracy. Dina, m…

ecns.cn (2023-02-09). HK chief executive urges local enterprises to expand business along BRI. ecns.cn Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is encouraging local companies to expand business opportunities in countries along China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

ecns.cn (2023-02-09). ChatGPT to challenge search engines: expert. ecns.cn With the advent of ChatGPT, typical search engines will face huge challenges, said Chen Yunwen, CEO of Daguan Grand, an AI enterprise based in Shanghai.

ecns.cn (2023-02-09). China central SOE net profits up 35.71 pct in three years. ecns.cn Net profits at China's centrally administrated state-owned enterprises (SOEs) rose 35.71 percent to 1.9 trillion yuan (about 279.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2022 from that achieved in 2020, official data showed.

teleSUR (2023-02-08). Microb Resistance To Drugs May Cause 10 Million Deaths By 20. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned that up to 10 million people could die annually by 20 because of the resistance that microorganisms have developed to antimicrobial drugs. | RELATED: | "Antimicrobials save lives, but their use has to be measured. The more exposed microbes are to pharmaceuticals, the more likely they are to adapt to them," stated Leticia Carvalho, head of the UNE…

WSWS (2023-02-08). Neo-Nazi couple arrested in plot to attack Baltimore-area substations. wsws.org Two neo-Nazis, including the founder of the Atomwaffen fascist terrorist group, Brandon Russell, are accused of conspiring to attack several energy facilities in Maryland in the hopes of causing a "cascading failure."

Ann Brown (2023-02-07). Report: White American Terrorists Planned To Blow Up Baltimore Power Grid Because City Is Black. moguldom.com Two white supremacists have been arrested for planning to blow up the Baltimore power grid because the city is predominately Black. Admitted neo-Nazi Brandon Clint Russell and a Maryland woman named Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested and charged with plotting to attack several electrical substations in the Baltimore area, federal authorities announced on Feb. 6. …

Anonymous103 (2023-02-07). Ukrainian Nazis Do Not Stop Shelling Civilians. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Unable to stop Russia's advance on the front line, the Ukrainian military continues daily shelling of civilians in the regions they have lost. Every day, people are killed by Ukrainian artillery in the city of Donetsk and other settlements of the DPR and LPR. | On February 7, one of the Ukrainian attacks hit the Kievsky district of Donetsk located in the south-western part of the city. Ukrainian Nazis intentionally targeted a bus station on Semashko Avenue. |

David Sirota (2023-02-07). Introducing Our New Podcast: MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM. levernews.com

Jeanne McGuire (2023-02-07). 'Be your own boss!': The myth of unemployment as opportunity. peoplesworld.org There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case. Most new businesses launched in the U.S. fail—at such a high rate that by the end of five years, just over half are still functioning. …

WSWS (2023-02-08). Neo-Nazi couple arrested in plot to attack Baltimore-area substations. wsws.org Two neo-Nazis, including the founder of the Atomwaffen fascist terrorist group, Brandon Russell, are accused of conspiring to attack several energy facilities in Maryland in the hopes of causing a "cascading failure."

Ann Brown (2023-02-07). Report: White American Terrorists Planned To Blow Up Baltimore Power Grid Because City Is Black. moguldom.com Two white supremacists have been arrested for planning to blow up the Baltimore power grid because the city is predominately Black. Admitted neo-Nazi Brandon Clint Russell and a Maryland woman named Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested and charged with plotting to attack several electrical substations in the Baltimore area, federal authorities announced on Feb. 6. …

Anonymous103 (2023-02-07). Ukrainian Nazis Do Not Stop Shelling Civilians. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Unable to stop Russia's advance on the front line, the Ukrainian military continues daily shelling of civilians in the regions they have lost. Every day, people are killed by Ukrainian artillery in the city of Donetsk and other settlements of the DPR and LPR. | On February 7, one of the Ukrainian attacks hit the Kievsky district of Donetsk located in the south-western part of the city. Ukrainian Nazis intentionally targeted a bus station on Semashko Avenue. |

David Sirota (2023-02-07). Introducing Our New Podcast: MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM. levernews.com

Jeanne McGuire (2023-02-07). 'Be your own boss!': The myth of unemployment as opportunity. peoplesworld.org There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case. Most new businesses launched in the U.S. fail—at such a high rate that by the end of five years, just over half are still functioning. …

Ashley Gjà∏vik (2023-02-07). Nestlé's Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism. covertactionmagazine.com From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. [This article inaugurates Ms. Gjovik's new column …

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe: An indictment of capitalism. wsws.org The fact that thousands of people die preventable deaths in earthquakes constitutes an indictment of imperialism and the capitalist system.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education! wsws.org The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Australian Labor government prioritises indigenous "Voice" in bid to divert mounting class tensions. wsws.org The same government that claims to be addressing the historic injustices done to indigenous people is seeking to make the working class as a whole pay for the crisis of global capitalism.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Christoph Vandreier: "We unite workers across all borders in the fight against war" wsws.org The following speech was delivered by the lead candidate and chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SGP), Christoph Vandreier, at the party's rally against the war in Ukraine on February 4 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

WSWS (2023-02-08). Johannes Stern: "The SGP's anti-war rally is in the tradition of Karl Liebknecht" wsws.org On February 4, the Socialist Equality Party held a rally against the war in Ukraine and the return of German militarism as part of its election campaign for the Berlin election at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. We publish here the opening remarks of Johannes Stern, who moderated the rally.

Susan Price (2023-02-08). Struggling for climate action, solidarity and ecosocialism in Malaysia. greenleft.org.au Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa, addressing the recent Socialist Alliance national conference, talked about the need for action and solidarity to confront the climate crisis. Susan Price reports.

Fight Back (2023-02-07). Tampa panel celebrates Black History Month, vows continued fight for Black liberation. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On February 6, Tampa community members packed the North Tampa branch library for a Black History Month panel hosted by the Tampa district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The panel discussed the demands of African Americans, in Tampa and across the country, in the struggle against racism, imperialism and national oppression, especially talking about the struggles against police brutality and for community control of the police. | "The epidemic of police violence shows the need for Black liberation. If we're going to be able to confront this thing head on, we need to develop better in…

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Socialist Equality Party candidates for the March 25 NSW election. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party is standing three candidates in the March 25 New South Wales state elections: Max Boddy in the Legislative Assembly in the Bankstown electorate and Oscar Grenfell and Mike Head in the Legislative Council.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-07). Socialism is increasingly popular in the U.S. So the House of Representatives denounces it. mronline.org Conservatives in the House of Representatives passed a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism" and opposing the implementation of socialist policies.

Fereshteh Ahmadi (2023-02-07). Western Efforts to Interfere in Iran's Civil Uprising. socialistproject.ca Over the past three months, the news media have focused on the recent protests in Iran. We are writing this essay in order to draw attention to the current risks to the Iranian feminist revolution. We are writing to highlight what is happening in our country of birth, Iran, a country that has always been of interest to the Western world, a country that during the last 100 years has frequently stood up for democracy only to be suppressed by domestic forces backed by Western powers. Iran's women and young people are now rising up again, and their slogan "woman, life, freedom" is heard in all parts of the country…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-07). Nicaraguan Ambassador: Only Socialist and Revolutionary Countries are Putting People Over Profit. libya360.wordpress.com Below we are pleased to publish the text of the powerful speech given by Guisell Morales Echaverry, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland, to the event we recently co-organised at the Marx Memorial Library in London, Socialist solutions to the climate crisis. Guisell notes it's the socialist and progressive…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). 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…

Gideon Polya (2023-02-07). Melbourne University Backs Racist and Anti-Semitic IHRA. dissidentvoice.org In 2022 Melbourne University (MU), formerly Australia's top university, succumbed to racist Zionist subversion by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish staff and students as anti-Semitic for criticism of Israeli Apartheid. MU has now adopted the false, racist and defamatory International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of anti-Semitism that is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, and …

_____ (2023-02-07). Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide. popularresistance.org The Unites States Empire is falling, just as previous empires have done. Clearing the FOG speaks with journalist and author Chris Hedges about his newest book, "The Greatest Evil is War," and the connection between wars and the end of empire. Hedges compares current conditions in the United States and the fall of Rome. He describes the Western war against Russia being fought in Ukraine and aggression against China as part of the last gasp grabs to hold onto US hegemony, but they are failing. He talks about the Military Industrial Complex as an institution that has taken over and is out of control. It will continu…

_____ (2023-02-07). Symbolism in Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan's Politics. journal-neo.org In he practice of political figures symbolism frequently manifests itself as a commitment to certain historical traditions established in national society and as an expression of consistent steps toward the future. This is a practice that can be found in both Eastern and Western politics. As the Ottoman Empire's successor, modern Turkey holds the idea …

Pamela Haines (2023-02-07). How worker ownership builds community wealth and a more just society. nationofchange.org Community wealth building initiatives are taking hold in cities across the world, strengthening worker pay, local economies and democracy.

jamanetwork (2023-02-07). Spending on Direct-to-Consumer Advertising for Pharmaceutical Products. jamanetwork.com The tension between physicians and drugmakers, especially over marketing, dates to the era of patent medicines. Since 1997, pharmaceutical manufacturers have advertised directly to US consumers, amplifying controversy over the role of drug marketing in clinical care. Critics argue that direct-to-consumer advertising drives use of expensive medications of marginal or no benefit. In 2015, the American Medical Association called for it to be banned. Proponents claim that direct-to-consumer advertising may provide important information to consumers, empowering them and reducing underdiagnosis. Economic analysis has s…

_____ (2023-02-06). The State Murder Of Tortuguita And Tyre Nichols Are Inextricably Linked. popularresistance.org The cold-blooded assassination of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, Spanish for "Little Turtle," is a reminder that fascism in the United States cannot be reduced to the political intentions of avowed white nationalists. African/Black and Indigenous people residing in the settler-colonial project known as the United States continue to be subjected to a cycle of state-sanctioned violence and political repression with bipartisan consensus. People of the global majority and their allies must not allow these latest episodes of injustice to go unanswered. | The Atlanta City-Wide Alliance of the Blac…

Ryan Black (2023-02-06). Sorry, Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy Is Not A "Decent Man": Today's GOP Are Fascists, Not Your Friends. progressivehub.net CHAUNCEY DEVEGA | SALON…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-06). Banner Dropped in front of Home of Neo-Nazi Liam MacNeil of NSC-131. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent banner drop outside of the Boston, MA area against neo-Nazi organizer, Liam MacNeil. Fascists deserve no fucking home. Tonight we put a banner up in front of neo-Nazi dipshit Liam MacNeil's residence. To those who are lucky enough to not know who Liam is he is a prominent member of the…

_____ (2023-02-06). In Grim Symbolic Gesture, Germany Sends 14+88 Tanks to Ukraine. strategic-culture.org In early February, Germany decided to supply Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 and 88 older Leopard 1 battle tanks, prompting speculation about the symbolism of this move. | 14/88 is a notorious neo-Nazi slogan extensively used in acts of white supremacist terrorism and violence. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-06). Communists celebrate 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazis at Stalingrad. peoplesdispatch.org In the historic five-month-long battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943), the Soviet Red Army and partisans defeated the invading Nazi forces, marking the beginning of the Nazi retreat and defeat in World War II…

krish-rad_ind (2023-02-06). Only nazis support Israel now. theduran.com

_____ (2023-02-06). The State Murder Of Tortuguita And Tyre Nichols Are Inextricably Linked. popularresistance.org The cold-blooded assassination of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, Spanish for "Little Turtle," is a reminder that fascism in the United States cannot be reduced to the political intentions of avowed white nationalists. African/Black and Indigenous people residing in the settler-colonial project known as the United States continue to be subjected to a cycle of state-sanctioned violence and political repression with bipartisan consensus. People of the global majority and their allies must not allow these latest episodes of injustice to go unanswered. | The Atlanta City-Wide Alliance of the Blac…

Ryan Black (2023-02-06). Sorry, Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy Is Not A "Decent Man": Today's GOP Are Fascists, Not Your Friends. progressivehub.net CHAUNCEY DEVEGA | SALON…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-06). Banner Dropped in front of Home of Neo-Nazi Liam MacNeil of NSC-131. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent banner drop outside of the Boston, MA area against neo-Nazi organizer, Liam MacNeil. Fascists deserve no fucking home. Tonight we put a banner up in front of neo-Nazi dipshit Liam MacNeil's residence. To those who are lucky enough to not know who Liam is he is a prominent member of the…

_____ (2023-02-06). In Grim Symbolic Gesture, Germany Sends 14+88 Tanks to Ukraine. strategic-culture.org In early February, Germany decided to supply Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 and 88 older Leopard 1 battle tanks, prompting speculation about the symbolism of this move. | 14/88 is a notorious neo-Nazi slogan extensively used in acts of white supremacist terrorism and violence. | (Click on the image to enlarge)…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-06). Communists celebrate 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazis at Stalingrad. peoplesdispatch.org In the historic five-month-long battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943), the Soviet Red Army and partisans defeated the invading Nazi forces, marking the beginning of the Nazi retreat and defeat in World War II…

krish-rad_ind (2023-02-06). Only nazis support Israel now. theduran.com

Staff (2023-02-06). Neo-Nazi Couple Arrested Over Alleged Plot to Take Down Baltimore Power Grid. truthout.org A neo-Nazi couple, including the founder of extremist terror group Atomwaffen Division, has been arrested and charged by federal officials for an alleged plot to take down the power grid of Baltimore to "completely destroy" the majority Black city. Atomwaffen Division (AWD) founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel have been charged by the Justice Department with conspiracy to destroy an energy… |

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe: An indictment of capitalism. wsws.org The fact that thousands of people die preventable deaths in earthquakes constitutes an indictment of imperialism and the capitalist system.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education! wsws.org The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.

WSWS (2023-02-07). Australian Labor government prioritises indigenous "Voice" in bid to divert mounting class tensions. wsws.org The same government that claims to be addressing the historic injustices done to indigenous people is seeking to make the working class as a whole pay for the crisis of global capitalism.

Ashley Gjà∏vik (2023-02-07). Nestlé's Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism. covertactionmagazine.com From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. [This article inaugurates Ms. Gjovik's new column …

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-06). How the Super-Rich Destroy Our Minds. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-02-07). The Socialist Equality Party candidates for the March 25 NSW election. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party is standing three candidates in the March 25 New South Wales state elections: Max Boddy in the Legislative Assembly in the Bankstown electorate and Oscar Grenfell and Mike Head in the Legislative Council.

WSWS (2023-02-06). Socialist Equality Party (US) condemns violent attacks on Chicago DSA Alderman Daniel La Spata. wsws.org The escalation of political violence in American life is not simply a vestige of an earlier period, but a symptom of the crisis and breakdown of bourgeois democracy amid escalating class tensions and expanding war efforts.

WSWS (2023-02-06). Socialist Equality Party condemns violent attacks on Chicago DSA Alderman Daniel La Spata. wsws.org The escalation of political violence in American life is not simply a vestige of an earlier period, but a symptom of the crisis and breakdown of bourgeois democracy amid escalating class tensions and expanding war efforts.

WSWS (2023-02-06). Hundreds attend Socialist Equality Party rally in Berlin against Ukraine war and German militarism. wsws.org The strong response to the rally shows that the SGP is giving a voice and a socialist perspective to widespread opposition to war and austerity. The SGP is the only party to oppose the ruling class' war in Ukraine and the danger of a third world war fought with nuclear weapons.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-07). 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…

Anonymous103 (2023-02-06). The U.S. Empire Is Starting To Fall Apart. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by In order to understand why, the nature of imperialism, and thus of all empires, needs first to be explained (especially because almost no one knows about this): | Whereas a merely domestic dictatorship is no danger to other nations, an international dictatorship — or "empire" — is a danger to other nations, because every empire (i.e., each of t…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-02-06). Can the American Leviathan Be Tamed? thealtworld.com Founding Fathers warned against going abroad in search of monsters to destroy. When Washington takes its wars, slogans, and coups abroad, generations of writers have characterized the aggression as seeking monsters to destroy. Washington has benefitted from the cover offered by the slogan, justifying mayhem inflicted on the world as overthrowing dictators and bringing democracy. | In his just published book, In Search of Monsters to Destroy (Independent Institute, 2022), Christopher J. Coyne, Independent Institute Fellow and economics professor at George Mason University, takes these claims at face value. He demo…

teleSUR (2023-02-06). Cubans Remember 91st Birth Anniversary Of Camilo Cienfuegos. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Cuban people remember the 91st birth anniversary of Camilo Cienfuegos, a prominent revolutionary who fought against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1959). | RELATED: | Born in Lawton, Havana, Camilo studied at the San Francisco de Paula elementary public school and San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, which he had to leave due to economic problems. | In 1948, he participated i…

Gideon Polya (2023-02-07). Melbourne University Backs Racist and Anti-Semitic IHRA. dissidentvoice.org In 2022 Melbourne University (MU), formerly Australia's top university, succumbed to racist Zionist subversion by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish staff and students as anti-Semitic for criticism of Israeli Apartheid. MU has now adopted the false, racist and defamatory International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of anti-Semitism that is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, and …

Dana Sanchez (2023-02-06). Zelensky Thanks Corporate Elites, Says More Weapons For Ukraine Is Big Business Opportunity. moguldom.com Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky compared governing Ukraine to running a business during a recent address to a corporate lobbying group and praised U.S. military aid, saying "Your brilliant defense systems — such as HIMARS or Bradleys — are already uniting our history of freedom with your enterprises." Zelensky thanked U.S. financial and investment giants such …

_____ (2023-02-07). Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide. popularresistance.org The Unites States Empire is falling, just as previous empires have done. Clearing the FOG speaks with journalist and author Chris Hedges about his newest book, "The Greatest Evil is War," and the connection between wars and the end of empire. Hedges compares current conditions in the United States and the fall of Rome. He describes the Western war against Russia being fought in Ukraine and aggression against China as part of the last gasp grabs to hold onto US hegemony, but they are failing. He talks about the Military Industrial Complex as an institution that has taken over and is out of control. It will continu…

_____ (2023-02-06). Russia's Strategic Aims — In Consequence to a Collapsing U.S. Empire. strategic-culture.org Weak leadership has lifted the lid on the European Pandora's box, Alastair Crooke writes. | Things are getting psychotic. As you listen to EU leaders, all parroting identical 'good news' speaking points, they nonetheless radiate basal disquietude — presumably a reflection of the psychic stress from, on the one hand, repeating 'Ukraine is winning: Russia's defeat is coming', when, on the other, they know

Editor (2023-02-06). Adani's fraudulent empire exposed. mronline.org The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the seven listed companies of the Adani group. The report states that this is the "biggest con in corporate history".

Pepe Escobar (2023-02-06). A Panicked Empire Tries to Make Russia an 'Offer it Cannot Refuse'. orinocotribune.com By Pepe Escobar Jan 30, 2023 | Realizing NATO's war with Russia will likely end unfavorably, the US is test-driving an exit offer. But why should Moscow take indirect proposals seriously, especially on the eve of its new military advance and while it is in the winning seat? | Those behind the Throne are never more dangerous than when they have their backs against the wall. | Their power is slipping away, fast: Militarily, via NATO's progressive humiliation in Ukraine; Financially, sooner rather than later, most of the Global South will want nothing to do with the currency of a bankrupt rogue giant; Politica…

_____ (2023-02-06). A Panicked Empire Tries To Make Russia An 'Offer It Can't Refuse'. popularresistance.org Those behind the Throne are never more dangerous than when they have their backs against the wall. | Their power is slipping away, fast: Militarily, via NATO's progressive humiliation in Ukraine; Financially, sooner rather than later, most of the Global South will want nothing to do with the currency of a bankrupt rogue giant; Politically, the global majority is taking decisive steps to stop obeying a rapacious, discredited, de facto minority. | So now those behind the Throne are plotting to at least try to stall the incoming disaster on the military front. | As confirmed by a high-level US establishment source,…

Ben Bartee (2023-02-06). What Is Anarcho-Tyranny and Are We Living in It? globalresearch.ca

Robynne Murphy (2023-02-06). Vale Juan Jose (John) Garcia, 1940—2023. greenleft.org.au John Garcia, a passionate and sincere person, spent a lot of his life fighting for rights for First Nations' peoples as well as refugees from tyranny. Robynne Murphy, his friend and comrade, writes about his life.

Rian Overy (2023-02-06). Defence Therapeutics begins manufacturing of it's ARM vaccine. healtheuropa.com Defence Therapeutics Inc., a Canadian biopharmaceutical company specialising in the development of immune-oncology vaccines and drug delivery technologies, is pleased to announce the start of it's ARM vaccine manufacturing in preparation for it's Phase I clinical trial targeting patients with solid cancer tumours. Defence is continuously striving to exploit it's AccumTM technology in many spaces. …

Ben Bartee (2023-02-04). Pfizer's Business Model is Actual Fascism. "The Merger of Corporate Power and State Power" globalresearch.ca

WSWS (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.

Mickey Z. (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 …

Manlio Dinucci (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 …

WSWS (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.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-04). Propping up the Wobbly Dollar. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (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.

Brian Williams (2023-02-04). Help get out book by Socialist Workers Party leaders, widen reach of 'Militant'. themilitant.com

Editor (2023-02-04). 109 Democrats Join GOP's Ridiculous 'Horrors Of Socialism' Vote. scheerpost.com Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.

Joel Britton (2023-02-04). Mary Lou Montauk, 78 years a builder, supporter of the SWP. themilitant.com OAKLAND, Calif. — More than people gathered here Jan. 21 to celebrate the life and political contributions of Mary Lou Montauk, a member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for 78 years. She died Jan. 5. | "Mary Lou stayed the course," SWP leader Betsey Stone told the gathering. "She was a cadre of the Socialist Workers Party, ready to do whatever was needed to strengthen the revolutionary party and the working class." | Born in 1930 in Minnesota, Montauk grew up during a time of labor battles and approaching war. Her father, Farrell Dobbs, was the central organizer of the Teamsters' 11-state ove…

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-04). Propping up the Wobbly Dollar. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (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.

Brian Williams (2023-02-04). Help get out book by Socialist Workers Party leaders, widen reach of 'Militant'. themilitant.com

Editor (2023-02-04). 109 Democrats Join GOP's Ridiculous 'Horrors Of Socialism' Vote. scheerpost.com Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.

Joel Britton (2023-02-04). Mary Lou Montauk, 78 years a builder, supporter of the SWP. themilitant.com OAKLAND, Calif. — More than people gathered here Jan. 21 to celebrate the life and political contributions of Mary Lou Montauk, a member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for 78 years. She died Jan. 5. | "Mary Lou stayed the course," SWP leader Betsey Stone told the gathering. "She was a cadre of the Socialist Workers Party, ready to do whatever was needed to strengthen the revolutionary party and the working class." | Born in 1930 in Minnesota, Montauk grew up during a time of labor battles and approaching war. Her father, Farrell Dobbs, was the central organizer of the Teamsters' 11-state ove…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (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…

americanthinker (2023-02-04). Biden outright lies about inflation, blaming Trump. americanthinker.com We are well into totalitarian territory now, with the regime propounding and the state-affiliated media reinforcing blatant lies.

WSWS (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). We're Trying To Crush The Happiest Country On Earth. popularresistance.org Some of the countries the Western media claims are horrific repressive dictatorships are way happier than the U.S. So let me ask: Are you happy? Do you spend a lot of time laughing in the sun? Do you feel at peace in your life? | If you live in the U.S., like me, then I'll bet you a KFC Family Bucket meant for one person; the answer is, "No! What are you? Crazy? Have you looked around? We've got a climate crisis, a wage slave society, tainted water, smoggy air, most of our meals have more pesticide than food particles, and the only human interaction we get is when someone clicks thumbs down on the Instagram photo…

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2023-02-04). Commemorating January 29, 2022: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Canada's Truckers Movement. globalresearch.ca

americanthinker (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?

Roy Landersen (2023-02-04). Ukraine fighters battle Putin's push in Donetsk. themilitant.com Almost a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, he is intensifying efforts to bomb its people into submission. His regime, whose origins lie in the KGB political police apparatus of the former Soviet Union, aims to reimpose the former czarist empire by annihilating the country's independence. As assaults on civilians and urban areas expand, working people in Ukraine continue to throw themselves into the fight to defend their country's sovereignty. | Following months of airstrikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, Moscow Jan. 26 targeted the largest cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv,…