Monthly Archives: December 2024

2024-12-04: News Headlines

Staff (2024-12-04). Venezuela Approves Budget & Indebtedness Laws for 2025. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, in a special session, the National Assembly of Venezuela approved bills on the Economic Financial Year 2025 and a bill on the Special Law on Annual Indebtedness for the Economic Financial Year 2025. | The first of the projects was presented by United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) deputy and president of the Permanent Finance Commission of the National Assembly, Jesús Farías. "This is the budget for the victory of the Venezuelan people against imperialism and fascism," said Farías as he presented the bill. "Without this victory, Venezuela would be in chaos." | He also said that the law concentr…

James D. Fernández (2024-12-04). New translation of 'Franco's Mass Graves' unearths crimes of Spanish fascism. peoplesworld.org The journalist Emilio Silva Barrera (born in Elizondo, Navarra, Spain, in 1965) belongs to the generation of grandchildren of those who experienced the Spanish Civil War as adults. His grandfather and namesake, a politically moderate small business owner in a small town in Northwestern Spain, was first harassed and extorted, later arrested, killed, and thrown …

WSWS (2024-12-04). French New Popular Front, neo-fascist RN poised to bring down Barnier government. wsws.org Unless workers are mobilized independently in struggle, a censure of Barnier will only intensify behind-the-scenes maneuvers in ruling circles on how to replace him while continuing his policies.

K. Ghorbanpour (2024-12-04). Is Iran an antisemitic 'Nazi regime'? haaretz.com The Supreme Leader rails against a secret Jewish plot to 'rule over us.' A former president hosts a Holocaust denial conference. Tehran rings out with chants of 'Death to Israel.' So is the equation, made routinely by Israeli politicians, that Iran = Nazi Germany justified? And did antisemitism in Iran suddenly emerge out of the 1979 Islamic Revolution?

A a (2024-12-04). Stati Uniti ed Europa ancora più distanti con l'arrivo di Trump. strategic-culture.su Il presidente eletto degli Stati Uniti creerà ulteriori attriti tra le parti, in particolare su questioni militari e fiscali. | Segue nostro Le pressioni dell'amministrazione statunitense sui Paesi europei affinché aumentino le spese per la difesa dovrebbero intensificarsi sotto Trump. Sotto la guida di Joe Biden, il governo statunitense ha assunto una posizione più assertiva sulle questioni di "sicurezza internazionale" e ha ampliato la…

WSWS (2024-12-04). Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty's falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar. wsws.org After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.

Staff (2024-12-04). Will the Overinflated U.S. Finance Bubble Burst? soundcloud.com On today's episode Nicole Roussell and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the overinflated U.S. financial sector and stock market, what will happen when that bubble bursts, and Trump's threats to hit BRICS countries with 100% tariffs if they support using non-U.S. dollar currency. Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at …

Maximillian Alvarez (2024-12-04). Is the Great Depression a glimpse of our future? therealnews.com "During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed," historian Dana Frank writes in her new book,

Giorgos Mitralias (2024-12-04). Trump and the European Right: an Attraction-Repulsion Relationship. counterpunch.org What to think of Trump's return to the White House? For the European bourgeoisies and their parties, the answer should be and has been positive and even enthusiastic. But why? Because of Trump's very clearly expressed intention to implement reactionary, anti-union, anti-worker, anti-social and pro-capitalist policies that the European right-wingers would like to implement at home too,

WSWS (2024-12-04). South Korean president attempts to impose martial law. wsws.org The failed military coup is a sharp warning to workers in South Korea and internationally: Mired in worsening crises, dictatorship is on the order of the day for the ruling classes around the world.

Haaretz Podcast (2024-12-04). Netanyahu and Trump's 'creeping authoritarianism': 'It always begins and ends with women'. haaretz.com

Steve Kelly (2024-12-04). The Alliance Fights to Protect Wild Rockies Ecosystems. counterpunch.org "A fish rots from the head down." — Rumi By now, we have all heard rumblings of Empire's imminent collapse. Propaganda and government gaslighting can no longer hide the obvious fact that social, financial, cultural, and political systems have failed miserably. The advanced state of Empire's decomposition (rotting from the head down) caused by malevolent

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2024-12-04). Uganda and Türkiye Strengthen Defence Ties. plusnews.ug Uganda and Türkiye are bolstering their defence cooperation, with a focus on military equipment, training, and technology transfer. This growing partnership was reaffirmed during the 4th Uganda-Türkiye Defence Industries Cooperation meeting, held at the National Enterprise Corporation (NEC) headquarters in Kampala today. Lt Gen James Mugira, Managing Director of NEC, emphasized the significance of the …

Olivia Barber (2024-12-04). Revealed: The first rail services to be brought back into public ownership. leftfootforward.org South Western Railway, C2C, and Greater Anglia will be the first rail operators to return to public ownership, the government has announced. | South Western Railways will be renationalised in May 2025, C2C in July 2025, and Greater Anglia in autumn 2025. | This comes after the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 received royal assent on 29 November. | The services will initially be operated by DfT Operator Limited, with Great British Railways (GBR) taking over control once it has been set up. | "For too long, the British public has had to put up with…

Bhabani Shankar Nayak (2024-12-04). Tyranny of Free Market. globalresearch.ca The market, as a social and economic institution, is fundamentally a process designed to facilitate human life by bringing consumers and producers together. It ensures economic activities serve the social purpose of satisfying the diverse needs of human beings. This …

The Independent (2024-12-04). Afreximbank, Med Aditus partner to boost Kenya's pharmaceutical production. independent.co.ug The project's strategic location in Kisumu, at the heart of the Great Lakes Region gives it access to markets in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan Kisumu, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa's multi-lateral lender, African Export-Import Bank and Kenya-based Med Aditus Pharmaceutical Kenya Limited (Med Aditus) have signed a project preparation …

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2024-12-01: News Headlines

Alina Bricman (2024-12-01). Romania's far-right 'TikTok Messiah': The dangerous rise of a fan of Nazi collaborators who massacred Jews in WWII. haaretz.com Calin Georgescu has come from nowhere to lead the field for Romania's presidential elections. A conspiracy theorist who calls the country's WWII fascist leaders 'heroes' is a danger for Romania and its Jewish community, and his phone call with an Israeli minister won't change that…

ecns.cn (2024-12-01). Xi urges more efforts to adapt Marxism to Chinese context and needs of times. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently delivered important instructions on the program to study and develop Marxist theory in the new era.

ecns.cn (2024-12-01). Xi stresses adapting Marxism to Chinese context. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has called for innovation in studying Marxist theory in the new era, urging greater efforts to adapt Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times.

Middle East Eye. (2024-12-01). Oxford Union Declares Israel An 'Apartheid State Responsible For Genocide'. popularresistance.org The prestigious Oxford Union voted by an overwhelming majority that Israel is an "apartheid state responsible for genocide" at a fiery event in which the society's president denounced Israel's war on Gaza as a "holocaust", and a pro-Israel speaker was ejected from the debating chamber. | The exclusive debating society, founded in 1823, held an unprecedented debate on Thursday night on the motion: "This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide". The motion was carried with a thumping majority of 278 to 59. | The packed debate on Thursday evening, observed by Middle East Eye and largely…

Amir Tibon (2024-11-30). Romania accuses Israel of election interference after Netanyahu minister's call with pro-Nazi candidate. haaretz.com Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli's conversation with presidential candidate Calin Georgescu was publicized by far-right media in Romania and beyond. Georgescu has previously praised the antisemitic Iron Guard, known for its violent persecution of Jews…

RT (2024-11-30). Canadian Police Treating Nazi Monument as War Memorial — Media. dissidentvoice.org View of the Ukrainian memorial to Nazi military unit, the 1st Galician Division, at St. Michael's Cemetery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. © Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Police and prosecutors in the Canadian province of Alberta have classed a monument to Ukrainian veterans who fought for Nazi Germany as a protected "war memorial," for the purpose …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-11-30). Southport stabbings: Who trained Axel Rudakubana? Could he have learnt from his father? expose-news.com Louise Uwacu, a Rwandan who fled from the criminal dictatorship of Paul Kagame and is now living in Canada as a refugee, has been asking some no-holds-barred questions about the links between …

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