(2024-01-26). Gaza Is Exposing Western Liberals For The Frauds They Are. orinocotribune.com 
By Caitlin Johnstone — Jan 24, 2024 | The entire western liberal worldview is currently balanced on the ability to psychologically compartmentalize away from the mass atrocities in Gaza and what western governments are doing to perpetuate them. | Everything that mainstream liberals claim to oppose is on full display in Israel's actions in Gaza. Racism. Fascism. Tyranny. Injustice. Genocide. Yet they must necessarily avoid throwing themselves into opposing these things there at all cost, because it would mean acknowledging that their own political allegiances are inseparably interwoven with them. | <...
(2024-01-26). Protests Erupt In Germany After Exposure Of Far-Right Conspiracy. popularresistance.org In the wake of revelations about a far-right conspiracy in Germany to expel migrants and "non-assimilated citizens", progressive sections in Germany have launched militant anti-far-right demonstrations across the country, raising the banner "Together Against the Right," in defense of democracy and against fascism. | From January 19 to January 22, more than 1.4 million people, including leftists, trade unionists, youth-students groups, and various other anti-fascist groups hit the streets in more than a hundred cities across Germany, protesting the xenophobic maneuvers and political schemings of far-right groups,…
(2024-01-26). Incarceration as Fascism, Incarceration as Imperialism. counterpunch.org 
Incarceration is about controlling. Not just those who commit criminal acts, but also those who society has no economic use for. If there are no laws existing to lock up this latter demographic, the facts tell us that the ruling classes will create new laws and intensify enforcement of existing statutes. An almost perfect example
(2024-01-26). More than a million workers demonstrate during general strike against Milei in Argentina. wsws.org In an attempt to contain mass social anger over fascistic President Javier Milei's "shock therapy" measures, the Confederation of Argentine Workers (CGT) convoked the first general strike since 2019 on Wednesday.
(2024-01-26). Prominent Jewish Activists Send Open Letter To German Officials. popularresistance.org United States — In anticipation of UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day, Saturday, January 27th, over 300 Jews worldwide have released an Open Letter to the German Government and other European Nations: Support South Africa at the World Court-Do Not Aid and Abet Israeli Genocide in Gaza. | Signed by rabbis, scholars, policy makers, filmmakers and activists, the letter reads, "We call on the governments of Germany, Austria and all European nations involved in the Nazi Holocaust to stand on the right side of history, to stand with South Africa in its courageous appeal to the highest court in the United Nations…
(2024-01-26). Fund people's needs in the Bronx, not genocide in Gaza! workers.org 
From a talk given by Richie Merino, an organizer of the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, at a panel he chaired on "Workers' struggles and building internationalism" during the International Assembly against Imperialism in Solidarity with Palestine, held on Jan. 21 in New York City. We gather here today in the spirit . . . |
(2024-01-26). Leninism: 'A doctrine of action'. workers.org 
From a talk given by Arjae Red, an initial organizer with Starbucks Workers United and an anti-imperialist fighter, at the panel on "Internationalism Today — A Global Struggle, during the International Assembly against Imperialism in Solidarity with Palestine, held on Jan. 21 in New York City. I want to talk . . . |
(2024-01-26). Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people. wsws.org David Marr's Killing for Country documents many mass killings of indigenous people but falsely blames the entire population, not the ruling class and Australian capitalism.
(2024-01-26). Instrumental Reason and Left Politics. indybay.org In the neoliberal variant of capitalism, postmodern pluralism dominates and with it a reason that is no longer trusted to understand the whole.. For instrumental reason, the actual world is always the best of all possible worlds since the question of a better world cannot arise in it. No problem arises that makes another, not yet existing world necessary or desirable.
(2024-01-26). Socialist councillor: New rainbow crossing a 'positive step'. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-01-26). War on Gaza: British man fighting for Israel wore shawl of Holocaust survivor who said 'do not hate'. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: British man fighting for Israel wore shawl of Holocaust survivor who said 'do not hate' | Close friend and fellow survivor says Zigi Shipper would have been 'heartbroken' by conflict in Gaza and angered by Israeli forces | Fri, 01/26/2024 – 12: 05 | The footage shows Levi Simon wearing the tallit belonging to Zigi Shipper in a building in Gaza, where he drew a Star of David (Screen…
(2024-01-26). International Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'Never Again' must include everyone. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-01-26). Tragedy's Bounty: The Revolution in Place. counterpunch.org 
As long as there have been men, man has felt too little joy. That, my brothers, is our original sin. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra If you are among these lucky very, very few, [who are privileged enough to have success in life that was not your own doing, …if your town…[ isn't] now filled with shuttered
(2024-01-26). Davos Elites Talk About Rebuilding Trust. The People Talk of System Change. portside.org
(2024-01-26). Yeh Man, the U.S. Has an Addiction to War and Empire. counterpunch.org 
What explains the Biden Administration's obsession with the Houthis and the Pentagon's almost daily launching of missile and air strikes on targets in Yemen? The ostensible rationale is to protect shipping in the Red Sea. Yet, other Arab allied nations, with the exception of Bahrain (a country that houses the largest US military base in
(2024-01-26). Imperial Costs: Two Stories Summarize the Cost of Empire to Democracy. counterpunch.org SEALs died taking part in a blockade mission against Yemen, a mission that dates back nearly a decade and is part of a two-decade-long history of US military action against Yemen (the US first launched a drone strike in Yemen in 2002). US policy towards Yemen is part of the larger, failed and counterproductive Global War on Terror, which itself is part of a larger, failed and counterproductive US Middle East policy. US Middle East policy, in its current form, goes back to the 1970s and is part of a larger, failed and counterproductive US militarized foreign policy. Can anyone go to the families of those two SEALs…
(2024-01-26). Roaming Charges: The Impotent Empire. counterpunch.org 
The problem with American politics isn't that it's polarized (we need more polarization over inequality, over war, over climate), but that it's polarized around two of the most inept and ridiculous figures in American history. The only two people Americans can apparently think of to run their dying Empire have both lost their frigging marbles, if they ever had any, which is a sure sign that your Empire is in fact dying.
(2024-01-26). China cut $238 bln taxes and fees for private firms in 2023. ecns.cn China has cut 1.69 trillion yuan ($237.89 billion) taxes and fees for private enterprises in 2023, making private taxpayers the biggest beneficiaries of the country's tax policies.
(2024-01-26). China ramps up efforts to attract foreign investment as new year begins. ecns.cn China witnessed a surge in foreign investment in 2023, with 53,766 new foreign-invested enterprises landing in China, up 39.7 percent year-on-year, with the actual use of foreign capital amounting to 1.1339 trillion yuan ($158.2 billion).
(2024-01-25). China ramps up efforts to attract foreign investment as new year begins. ecns.cn China witnessed a surge in foreign investment in 2023, with 53,766 new foreign-invested enterprises landing in China, up 39.7 percent year-on-year, with the actual use of foreign capital amounting to 1.1339 trillion yuan ($158.2 billion).