(2024-01-02). The Politics of Emergency Time and the Emerging Threat of Fascism. counterpunch.org 
The underbelly of contemporary violence is colonialism, the politics of disposability, religious fundamentalism, neoliberalism, and raw militarism. Violence seems to have engulfed the earth like a blinding sandstorm. Children are being killed en mass in Gaza, homelessness is increasingly spreading among youth in many countries, inequality exists at staggering levels, and a culture for justice has been replaced by a global culture of war. Gangster capitalism is waging a war on the working class, women's reproductive rights, gay rights, people of color, and democracy itself–brazenly wrapping itself in the discours…
(2024-01-03). Biden's border police doubled deportations in Fiscal Year 2023. wsws.org Biden has reneged on his campaign promises to enact more "humane" immigration policies than his fascist predecessor and is now preparing to effectively abolish the right to asylum.
(2024-01-03). Oppose the ouster of Harvard University President Claudine Gay! wsws.org The fingerprints of fascist forces, the state and the military are all over the conspiracy to bring down Gay.
(2024-01-02). 1st January AD 2024: The Genocide in Palestine and the Fascist Continuum: Nuremberg 2 Now! globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Israel's Genocide Betrays the Holocaust By: Chris Hedges. midwesternmarx.com Never Again and Again and Again – by Mr. Fish Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi's depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a million people are already starvi …
(2024-01-02). Israel's Genocide Betrays The Holocaust. popularresistance.org Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi's depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a million people are already starving — and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary. The Palestinians are being forced to choose betwe…
(2024-01-03). For a European movement against capitalism and war. wsws.org Millions of people around the world are taking to the streets to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the threat of world war. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, in close cooperation with its comrades in France, the UK, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, is participating in the European elections to give voice to this opposition and develop it into a powerful movement against the root cause of war, capitalism.
(2024-01-03). Australian protests against Gaza genocide: "Governments are trying to suppress the opposition" wsws.org "People are waking up to the inequity of capitalism, which is at the root of a lot of problems in the world."
(2024-01-02). Jan 2, 2024. sitrepworld.info Platoon Soundtrack — Adagio for Strings The Great Clarification, by James Howard Kunstler US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption, by Jeffrey D. Sachs Is It Over Yet? Dissecting capitalism, by Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai (Transcript) The War Party Tantrum, by Matt Taibbi Tributes Pour in For John Pilger — Consortium News The End of Free Speech? by John Leake The China Convergence: Yes, the West is becoming more like China, by N.S. Lyons Happy Days Are Here Again? by Bill Astore 1984/2024 — the hidden hope in Orwell's warning, by Paul Cudenec Newyear's resolution: "be…
(2024-01-03). Bangladesh solidarity rally with Palestine. workers.org 
By the Socialist Party of Bangladesh On Dec. 29, a solidarity rally and march was held in Bangladesh with the slogan "Genocide, Free Palestine." The event occurred at Shahbagh Square in Dhaka. It was organized by the "Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh" Chapter, constituting communist, socialist, left progressive political parties, organizations, . . . |
(2024-01-03). The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism, and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution , (Part One). wsws.org The New Year opens against the backdrop of a massive escalation of imperialist violence throughout the world. Genocide and nuclear war are being normalized.
(2024-01-03). Russia is on a path to becoming socialist again. In anticipation of this, we must unite the globe's anti-imperialist forces By: Rainer Shea. midwesternmarx.com The way that we interpret Russia's special military operation, and the events surrounding it, is going to determine how we wage the class struggle throughout…
(2024-01-03). Forge ahead with reform and opening-up By: Ken Hammond. midwesternmarx.com 
In December 1978 the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made a momentous decision to open a new program of economic development. Over the first three decades of the People's Republic of China, a foundation for a modern socialist system had been built, but this had been an arduous process, with advances and retreats, successes and failures, and much contention about how best to pursue the goals of enhancing production in industry and agriculture and of improving the mat …
(2024-01-02). Philippines: DSWD DROMIC Report #11 on the Effects of Shear Line and Tropical Storm "Kabayan" as of 31 December 2023, 6PM. reliefweb.int Country: Philippines | Source: Government of the Philippines | 
(2024-01-03). 5 January, NYC: A Night of Resistance — A Teach-In. samidoun.net 
Join Samidoun NY/NJ on Friday, January 5 at 7 pm at 176 St. Nicholas Ave in Brooklyn for a teach-in on Palestine, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the Palestinian and regional resistance to Zionism, imperialism and reactionary regimes. This event will take place at Mayday Space!
(2024-01-02). Could 'sneaky, conniving' Democrats help pump 'Trump the Dictator' surges after setbacks? nationofchange.org For now, it's grin and bear it time, enduring one more round of crazed Trumpism until the zombie is declared dead and buried.
(2024-01-02). Never Again! No More Hasbara Holocaust Memorial Days! No More Hierarchy of Victims! strategic-culture.su 
(2024-01-03). Pilger's Rap Sheet On The Criminal Elite. popularresistance.org John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations — war, genocide, exploitation — as well as its endless lies and propaganda. | Till his death on Saturday, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article, "We are all Spartacus," published in Consortium News, was a call to stand with the imprisoned publisher. | Pilger gave voice to the invisible and the voiceless: the hungry, the poor, the handicapped, the conscripted, the sanctioned and bombed, the dispossessed, refugees, the chemically experimented on, the structurally…
(2024-01-03). The Year US Empire Faced Great Difficulties In Organizing Another Foreign Intervention. popularresistance.org It took the U.S. government one year to push through the United Nations Security Council its project for a fourth foreign military invasion of Haiti, but even now it is not a sure thing. | Although, on Oct. 2, the UN body blessed the "Multinational Security Support" mission (MSS) which 1,000 Kenyan police will supposedly lead, the Kenyan Supreme Court has given itself until Jan. 26, 2024 to decide on whether the Kenyan police can constitutionally be deployed abroad. Many Kenyan lawyers and opposition leaders say they cannot. | Whatever the court decides, it is uncertain that Kenyan President William Ruto will res…
(2024-01-02). A Voice for the Oppressed: John Pilger, Radical Journalist and Documentarian. scheerpost.com By KJ Noh / CounterPunch A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away. John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations—war, genocide, exploitation—as well as its endless lies and propaganda. Till his death, …
(2024-01-02). John Pilger and the Nobel Anonymous. counterpunch.org 
John Pilger, a very influential and pioneering journalist and commentator, has died. I talk about him and his longtime partner David Munro in my new book Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire. went into Cambodia in 1979 and filmed a riveting documentary. Very brave men. People who showed people like me how to do it.
(2024-01-02). The Year the US Empire Faced Great Difficulties in Organizing Another Foreign Intervention Into Haiti. orinocotribune.com 
By Kim Ives -Dec 20, 2023 | It took the U.S. government one year to push through the United Nations Security Council its project for a fourth foreign military invasion of Haiti, but even now it is not a sure thing. | Although, on Oct. 2, the UN body blessed the "Multinational Security Support" mission (MSS) which 1,000 Kenyan police will supposedly lead, the Kenyan Supreme Court has
(2024-01-03). Stable growth to be focus of policy support. ecns.cn China is expected to step up policy support for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and advanced manufacturing in a more precise manner, while also paying more attention to prevent industry regulatory measures from constraining economic vitality, experts said.
(2024-01-02). Harsher punishment set for bribery crimes. ecns.cn People who offer bribes or damage the legitimate interests of private enterprises will face harsher punishment in line with an amended law, in China's latest step in strengthening the fight against corruption.
(2024-01-02). The Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting rule and the surveillance state. sonar21.com 
The 2021 National Defense Authorization
(2024-01-02). Yemen's Houthis Become Today's Red Sea Version of the 'Barbary Pirates'. counterpunch.org 
When my husband and I were producing the pro-West Beirut (Lebanon) Daily Star, one of Yemen's tyrannical kings was ruling from an elaborate barber's chair. Its few exports were chiefly coffee, cotton, and hides, but also postage stamps for international collectors. One of its most infamous imports we interviewed was California's outspoken and dramatic ex-patriot
(2024-01-03). Parallel Massacres: From the Zapatistas to Wounded Knee and Gaza. indybay.org Parallel Massacres: From the Zapatistas to Wounded Knee and Gaza — Censored News Most Censored 2023. The weapons flow and its tentacles in Indian country; the violations of the sacred; and the silencing of voices for Palestine at universities in the United States were among the most censored issues in 2023. The war crimes and genocide in Palestine with U.S. funds and weapons would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. media, which has gone from lazy chair plagiarizing to becoming a government organ serving war profiteers.
(2024-01-02). Parallel Massacres: From the Zapatistas to Wounded Knee and Gaza. indybay.org Parallel Massacres: From the Zapatistas to Wounded Knee and Gaza — Censored News Most Censored 2023. The weapons flow and its tentacles in Indian country; the violations of the sacred; and the silencing of voices for Palestine at universities in the United States were among the most censored issues in 2023. The war crimes and genocide in Palestine with U.S. funds and weapons would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. media, which has gone from lazy chair plagiarizing to becoming a government organ serving war profiteers.