therealnews.com (2025-01-08). She was fired for pro-Palestine speech. She's a Jewish professor.
Maura Finkelstein, a former tenured professor at Muhlenberg College, was fired for sharing a post by Palestinian poet Remi Kenazi on her Instagram story.
(2025-01-08). Lessons from Syria for China. uwidata.com By Oràßun Gà∂ktàºrk, Beijing / China For 13 years, the Assad leadership in Syria has resisted an imperialist, reactionary, and separatist war. Last month, however, Assad's government collapsed following the advance of HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham), first to Aleppo and then to Damascus. The new situation in Syria poses a significant threat to China, as well as …
(2025-01-08). Lessons from Syria for China. unitedworldint.com China needs to revise its traditional 'wait-and-see' or 'economy-first' approach to International Relations. By Oràßun Gà∂ktàºrk, Beijing / China For 13 years, the Assad leadership in Syria has resisted an imperialist, reactionary, and separatist war. Last month, however, Assad's government collapsed following the advance of HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham), first to Aleppo and then to Damascus. The new situation …
(2025-01-08). 47 quotes from self-styled "elites" demonstrating they really do want to reduce the world's population. expose-news.com Michael Snyder has collected 47 quotes from so-called "elites" who belong to the depopulation cult. They have the erroneous belief that by reducing the world's population (not themselves of course) all the …
(2025-01-08). Haiti and American Neocolonialism. counterpunch.org 
Haiti is best understood in the contexts of the modern world as an American neocolonial protectorate. Besides US policy in Cuba, which includes a genocidal blockade depriving the Cuban people of precious resources needed to function society, it's hard to find another case of such an ongoing and sustained assault from the largest empire in
(2025-01-08). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org
(2025-01-08). Scandinavians, the World's Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA. covertactionmagazine.com Part IV: The Yankees Are Coming to All Scandinavia [See Parts 1, 2 and 3 of veteran journalist and political activist Ron Ridenour's look into Denmark and its ties to the U.S. empire—Editors] Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen surprised the nation three days after Joe Biden warned Russia it would lose its Nord Stream natural gas …
(2025-01-08). BRICS Grows, Adding Indonesia As Member. popularresistance.org Indonesia is the world's number one producer of nickel, by a large margin. Nickel is an important mineral needed for renewable energy technologies like batteries and solar panels. | In the past decade, the Indonesian government has embarked upon an ambitious industrialization program. Through careful state planning and industrial policy, Jakarta banned the export of raw minerals and, with strategic investments from Chinese state-owned enterprises and favorable loans from Chinese state-owned banks, Indonesia has moved up the value chain, processing nickel at home, instead of simply exporting the ore.
(2025-01-08). Pfizer's "Secret" Report on the Covid "Vaccine". Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide. globalresearch.ca Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.
(2025-01-07). Two Israeli army officers killed in northern Gaza. haaretz.com An incident in northern Gaza left two soldiers dead and two seriously wounded. Capt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, from the West Bank settlement of Eli is the 10th person from that community to be killed in the war…
(2025-01-07). Two Israeli army officers killed in northern Gaza. haaretz.com An incident in northern Gaza left two soldiers dead and two seriously wounded. Capt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, from the West Bank settlement of Eli is the 10th person from that community to be killed in the war.
(2025-01-07). How Elon Musk is ushering in a new era of global far-right power. newarab.com 
The Nazis first entered regional power in 1930. It was in the Eastern state of Thuringia where the Nazis first held ministerial-level posts. Three years later, Adolf Hitler became chancellor. | Nearly a century on, the far-right in Germany is once again in the ascendancy. Echoing this dark history, last September, on the very date Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, a far-right party won a regional election for the first time in Germany's post-war history. | The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) won
(2025-01-07). IKEA Workers Vote To Extend Strike Into The New Year. popularresistance.org Perryville, Maryland – On December 28, 320 unionized workers at the Perryville IKEA distribution center in northern Maryland voted to remain on strike into the new year after voting down a tentative agreement offered to them by the company and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union. | The distribution workers have been on strike since mid-November, citing seniority treatment and pay which is below the cost of living. | "Seniority is the most important thing here," said striking worker Lisa Mengel in a video statement released by More Perfect Union.
(2025-01-07). Last Days of the Bibby Stockholm: Life aboard the UK's migrant barge. aljazeera.com Living on a UK migrant barge, an asylum seeker battles depression through running while awaiting an asylum decision.
(2025-01-07). New Zealand government, opposition parties glorify deceased Māori Party founder. wsws.org The embrace of Māori Party founder Tariana Turia by the National Party-ACT-NZ First coalition government and the opposition Labour and Green parties underscores the party's reactionary record and the right-wing character of its racial identity politics.
(2025-01-07). Jimmy Carter's "Decency & Humanity" Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin. democracynow.org 
As the remains of Jimmy Carter arrive in Washington, D.C., as part of a weeklong state funeral, we speak with historian Greg Grandin about the former U.S. president's legacy. Carter, who served a single term from 1977 to 1981, promised to restore faith in government after the twin traumas of Watergate and the Vietnam War and to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward upholding human rights. "He came to power promising … a new kind of doctrine, that the United States was moving away from both the ideological excess and the support for dictatorships that led to wars like Vietnam or coups in Chile,"…
(2025-01-07). Bashar al Assad survives assassination attempt in Moscow: Report. ummid.com Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad was poisoned in the Russian capital Moscow, reports said adding he is now under medical treatment.
(2025-01-07). America is a Threat to Humanity. libya360.wordpress.com BettBeat Media The illusion of American imperial decline lies shattered amidst the rubble of Syrian cities and the smoldering ruins of Gaza. As human rights advocate Dan Kovalik grimly observes, what we're witnessing isn't the death throes of an empire, but rather its devastating demonstration of still-formidable power to crush resistance and reshape regional realities at…
(2025-01-07). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org
(2025-01-07). India's 'Neighborhood First' Testament Fails Bangladesh. pressenza.com Ancient India's visionary strategist Chanakya gave six-fold policy deals on war and peace with the neighboring states, how a king should assess his power, and what actions he needed to take to deal with the states. | Nearly 2316 years ago, the Indian philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor professed diplomatic principles that still have relevance in modern diplomacy. | Chanakya who lived around 300 BCE was a key figure in the establishment of the glorious Mauryan Empire and is known for writing Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise on politics and economics. | Unfortunately, the South Block in New De…
(2025-01-07). Luwero stuck with sh740 million debt for road works after Ramathan Ggoobi declines to pay. independent.co.ug 
Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Luwero District are grappling with a sh740 million debt related to road works after the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development rejected their request to settle the amount. The debt dates back to 2014, when the district contracted Busenvi Enterprises Limited for sh522 million to construct …
Four years ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump staged an attempted fascist coup in Washington as part of a last-ditch effort to block Congressional certification of his defeat in the 2020 election. The violence took five lives within the first 36 hours, and four officers who responded to the attack took their own lives over …
Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a "new era" in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires' accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their "destructive" and "nihilist" beliefs. In a f…
New Orleans The Workers Voice Socialist Movement (Louisiana) issued the following lightly edited statement on Jan. 1, 2025. Our condolences go out to the families and friends of those killed and injured in the horrific attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We condemn it completely. We also call . . . | 
Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for "treatment-resistant depression" are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. "Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States," NPR reported early in 2024 ("The Ketamine Economy: New Mental Health Clinics are a 'Wild West' with Few Rules"). This may be an underestimation, as Psychiatric News reported later in 2024, "More than 1,500 intravenous (IV) infusion clinics have proliferated n…
Since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3, a steady stream of revelations has emerged from reporters and investigators, painting an increasingly disturbing picture of events. Plans drawn up by Yoon's co-conspirators included a shocking level of brutality and the promise of repression on a mass scale. 
Redlining, exclusionary zoning, and predatory lending schemes have put prospective Black homeowners at a severe disadvantage. As the Ballard Center for Social Impact points out, the gap in homeownership rates between Black and white families was larger in 2019 than in the 1960s. In 2023, the National Association of Realtors reported a nearly 29 percent homeownership divide between these