(2024-01-16). Latin America: Between declining US imperialism and rising neofascism. greenleft.org.au 
In the second part of his interview with Green Left's Federico Fuentes, Brazilian author and socialist Pedro Fuentes discusses the crisis of imperialist hegemony, the unpredictability of contemporary politics and its impacts on Latin America.
(2024-01-17). Wednesday 1/24: Support Argentina's General Strike Against Fascist Milei: Victory for Argentina Workers! indybay.org US Federal Building | 70 9th St./Mission St. | San Francisco…
(2024-01-16). One hundred days of the imperialist-Zionist genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The genocide in Gaza has exposed not only the criminality and fascistic character of the Israeli government, but the active support and complicity of the imperialist powers, above all the United States.
(2024-01-16). Wednesday 1/24: Support Argentina's General Strike Against Fascist Milei: Victory for Argentina Workers! indybay.org US Federal Building | 70 9th St./Mission St. | San Francisco…
(2024-01-17). Casino Capitalism And Derivatives Market: Time For A 'Lehman Moment'? popularresistance.org Reading the tea leaves for the 2024 economy is challenging. On January 5th, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said we have achieved a "soft landing," with wages rising faster than prices in 2023. But critics are questioning the official figures, and prices are still high. Surveys show that consumers remain apprehensive. | There are other concerns. On Dec. 24, 2023, Catherine Herridge, a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News covering national security and intelligence, said on "Face the Nation," "I just feel a lot of concern that 2024 may be the year of a black swan event. This is a national security event…
(2024-01-16). The Forgotten Socialist History Of Martin Luther King Jr. popularresistance.org In 1952 a 23-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a love letter to Coretta Scott. Along with coos of affection and apologies for his hasty handwriting, he described his feelings not just toward his future wife, but also toward America's economic system. "I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic," he admitted to his then-girlfriend, concluding that "capitalism has outlived its usefulness." | King composed these words as a grad student on the tail end of his first year at the Boston University School of Theology. And far from representing just the…
(2024-01-16). Ellen Brown: Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another 'Lehman Moment'? scheerpost.com 
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Reading the tea leaves for the 2024 economy is challenging. On January 5th, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said we have achieved a "soft landing," with wages rising faster than prices in 2023. But critics are questioning the official figures, and prices are still high. Surveys show that consumers …
(2024-01-17). US imperial dominance, BRICS sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange. cadtm.org Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is the author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique and Extreme Uneven Development: Financial Volatility, Deep Capitalist Crisis and Super-Exploitation in South Africa and the World. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Bond discusses modern-day (…) | – | / |
(2024-01-17). Socialist councillor: New rainbow crossing a 'positive step'. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-01-16). US imperial dominance, BRICS sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange. cadtm.org Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is the author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique and Extreme Uneven Development: Financial Volatility, Deep Capitalist Crisis and Super-Exploitation in South Africa and the World. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Bond discusses modern-day (…) | – | / |
(2024-01-16). Paul Burkett (PapaPatty). mronline.org An intellectual and scholar, Paul published many books, journal articles, notes, reviews, and book chapters in his field. He felt his most important books are Marx and Nature: A Red And Green Perspective (1999) and Marxism and Ecological Economics (2006). He was passionate about his work, Socialism, the planet, and justice.
(2024-01-17). The Connection Between Autoimmune Diseases and Perinatal Depression: A Critical Insight. medriva.com
(2024-01-17). Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry's Antidepressant Coffin. counterpunch.org 
Historically, there have always been some patients who report that any treatment for depression—including bloodletting—has worked for them, but science demands that for a treatment to be deemed truly effective, it must work better than a placebo or the passage of time without any treatment. This is especially important for antidepressant drugs—including Prozac, Zoloft, and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), as well as Effexor, Cymbalta, and other serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)—because all of these drugs have uncontroversial troubling side effec…
(2024-01-17). Craig Murray: Your Man In The Hague — Day Two. popularresistance.org As with the South African case, according to court procedure the Israeli case was introduced on Friday by their "agent", permanently accredited to the court, Tal Becker of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He opened with the standard formula "it is an honour to appear before you again on behalf of the state of Israel", managing to imply purely through phrasing and tone of voice that the honour lay in representing Israel, not in appearing before the judges. | Becker opened by going straight to the Holocaust, saying that nobody knew more than Israel why the Genocide Convention existed. Six million Jewish peo…
(2024-01-17). Poll: 74 Percent of Millionaires in G20 Countries Support Higher Taxes on Wealth. truthout.org Survey results released Tuesday as corporate CEOs, top government officials, and other global elites gathered in Davos, Switzerland show that nearly three-quarters of millionaires in G20 countries support higher taxes on extreme wealth, which they view as an increasingly dire threat to democracy. The poll was conducted by the London-based firm Survation on behalf of the Patriotic Millionaires… |
(2024-01-16). China Bids To Woo Back Global Elites At Davos Forum. latintimes.com China will put on a show of force Tuesday with a large delegation represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang at the annual meeting of global elites in Davos, despite shadows cast by wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza.
(2024-01-16). Ukraine War Day #692: Bulgarians Hint They Liked Hitler Better? awfulavalanche.wordpress.com 
Dear Readers: | Today we are going to talk about Russo-Bulgarian relations, for which
(2024-01-16). President Maduro: Venezuela Suffers an Economic Genocide. orinocotribune.com A true economic genocide has been committed against Venezuela, said President Nicolás Maduro forcefully, during his annual message before the National Assembly, due to illegal sanctions that have been applied to Venezuela by the North American empire since 2015 and that continue to affect the Venezuelan people. | The head of state said this Monday, January 15, that due to the drop in oil production by 87 percent, due to the sanctions, 323 billion dollars have been lost only in oil production, which stopped entering the country. Oil production stood at more than 2.5 million barrels per day in 2015 and fell to 339…
(2024-01-16). Washington's Unconditional Support for Israel Mirrors its Unconditional Support for Sectarianism. dissidentvoice.org Poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgment Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts…. — Hamlet (IV.v.) As was the case with the British and Roman empires that preceded it, Washington has long had a fondness for the divide and conquer paradigm and has ruthlessly fomented sectarianism in…
(2024-01-17). Idea to open Belarus' multi-brand machinery center makes most progress in Russia's Kuzbass. eng.belta.by The center is a project of the B24 company, BelAZ official representative in Kemerovo. The enterprise has three buildings, and the fourth one is to open this year. The total area is more than 15,000 square meters.
(2024-01-17). Premier says China welcomes foreign enterprises to invest and do business. ecns.cn Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday that investing in China will bring huge returns and a better future, and China welcomes foreign enterprises to invest and do business in the country.
(2024-01-16). The Richest 1 Percent Own a Greater Share of the Stock Market Than Ever Before. inequality.org New Federal Reserve analysis of stock markets has found that the concentration of ownership of the public equity stock market has hit an all-time high. "The rich now own a record share of stocks," Axios reported on January 10, noting that the top 10 percent hold about 93 percent of U.S. households stock market wealth. …
(2024-01-16). UMSC seeks to reclaim Mariam High School. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) has asserted a claim over the ownership of Mariam High School, a private girls-only secondary school located in the Kisota zone, Kisaasi in Kampala. The school in question is one of those that have been selected and approved by the education ministry to …
(2024-01-16). The Richest 1 Percent Now Own a Greater Share of the Stock Market Than Ever Before. inequality.org New Federal Reserve analysis of stock markets has found that the concentration of ownership of the public equity stock market has hit an all-time high. "The rich now own a record share of stocks," Axios reported on January 10, noting that the top 10 percent hold about 93 percent of U.S. households stock market wealth. …
(2024-01-16). EU called to impose tariffs on Ukrainian cereals. plenglish.com Budapest, Jan 16 (Prensa Latina) The ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia called on the European Commission to impose tariffs on the imports of Ukrainian cereals, the Ministry of Agriculture informed.
(2024-01-16). Africa Pharma gets shot in the arm. independent.co.ug 
Host country agreement singed as Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation gets underway ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Africa's efforts to build a resilient and self-reliant pharmaceutical industry for the continent advanced significantly on Dec. 18 as the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation and the Rwandan Government signed the host country agreement paving the way for the Foundation's operationalisation. The Foundation …