(2025-01-25). Venezuelan President Maduro Assumes a Third Term — Prospects and Problematics. pressenza.com The first thing greeting me as I disembarked from my flight in Caracas was a wanted poster for one Edmundo González Urrutia. The reward was $100,000. Not to be outdone, the US had slapped a $25 million bounty on the head of President Maduro and lesser amounts on other Venezuelan leaders. | By Roger D. Harris | Both González and the incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, claimed that he would be the one to be inaugurated in two days. I had come to accompany the inauguration and for the concurrent antifascist festival. | History repeats itself — first tragedy, farce, and then silliness | From its inception with…
(2025-01-25). Fascist kills one, injures two, before turning gun on self, in Nashville, Tennessee high school shooting. wsws.org On his social media accounts and in a purported manifesto, the fascist shooter repeated the same anti-immigrant "Great Replacement Theory" politics promoted by the Republican Party, and large sections of the financial oligarchy.
(2025-01-25). Maersk Exports Cargo From Illegal Israeli Settlements To The US. popularresistance.org A new report details a shipping and logistics giant's role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine and Syrian territories. | A.P. Moller Maersk is a publicly traded Danish company that netted a revenue of $51.1 billion in 2023. According to research compiled by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and its Mask off Maersk campaign, the company has repeatedly facilitated shipments to the United States from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights. | "The global structures of financialized capitalism, logistics and supply chains play an outsize role in the ma…
(2025-01-25). The thesis of Squid Game 2: Capitalism is a hell of our own making. wsws.org Three years after the "survival drama" phenomenon attracted millions of viewers' attention worldwide, Squid Game's second season struggles to build on the series' cracked foundation.
(2025-01-25). Spain plans 100% house tax on foreigners: Will it fix the housing crisis? aljazeera.com Socialist PM Sanchez announces several measures, including 100 percent tax on foreigners, to tackle the housing crisis.
(2025-01-25). The Worst Thing About The Gaza Holocaust Is Knowing It Will Happen Again. caitlinjohnstone.com.au
(2025-01-25). The Worst Thing About The Gaza Holocaust Is Knowing It Will Happen Again. thealtworld.com The official death toll from the Israeli assault on Gaza has continued to climb at about the same rate it was climbing before the …
(2025-01-25). Davos 2025: Milei slams Starmer's woke policy of jailing citizens for exposing Muslim rape gangs and Trump declares "America is back" expose-news.com Argentina's President Javier Milei addressed the World Economic Forum in 2024 and 2025, criticising global elites and their policies, and warning that the Western world is in danger due to abandoning freedom …
(2025-01-25). Elon Musk 'jokes about Hitler' after Netanyahu defends X boss. newarab.com The world's wealthiest man Musk posted on his social media platform X a series of puns about members of
(2025-01-25). Israel Further Extends Concentration Camp for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. indybay.org On January 9, the Kangaroo Court of Ashkelon extended Dr. Hussam's detention without charges until February 13. "He was denied access to his legal counsel and participated in the hearing via video call," Al Mezan stated. After the hearing, he was transferred to Ofer Prison, where Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was murdered after four months of torture by the Israeli regime on April 19, 2024. For more information on Dr. Adnan's torture and murder, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_al-Bursh…
(2025-01-24). Bertrand Russell: Redefining the Public Intellectual in an Era of Rising Authoritarianism. counterpunch.org Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the specter haunting the United States: the specter of fascism. As reported in the New York Times, his actions underscored a vision of governance steeped in cruelty and unchecked power. With the stroke of a pen, Trump pardoned 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6th insurrection, dismantled environmental protections, opened Alaska's wilderness to expanded oil and gas drilling, terminated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs across federal agencies, and signed…
(2025-01-24). Footage of Musk's fascist salute projected onto Berlin Tesla factory by Led by Donkeys. leftfootforward.org 'The world's richest man, Elon Musk, is promoting the far right in Europe. Don't buy a Tesla.'
(2025-01-24). Israel's Netanyahu Says Musk "Unfairly Smeared" for Salute Embraced by Neo-Nazis. truthout.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to Elon Musk's defense after the billionaire performed a salute at Donald Trump's inauguration that is being widely celebrated by neo-Nazis as a Nazi salute. In a post on social media, Netanyahu said that Musk is being "falsely smeared" and suggested that Musk's support of Israel is proof that he isn't antisemitic — even as numerous Jewish… |
(2025-01-24). Anyone who smeared Corbyn but is defending Musk's Nazi salute is not a serious person. thecanary.co Pro-Israel figures have been trying to defend or downplay the Nazi salute of world's richest man Elon Musk. And in some cases, this flies completely in the face of their previous desperate attempts to smear lifelong anti-racist Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite. Legendary Jewish academic David Graeber described the weaponisation of antisemitism accusations against Corbyn when …
(2025-01-24). Musk's Nazi Salute Becomes 'Awkward Gesture' in 'Exuberant Speech'. fair.org
(2025-01-24). Should We Condemn the Glorification of Nazism? libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan Monument to the glory of Stepan Bandera in Ternopil (Ukraine). According to Forward Magazine, there are around a hundred monuments to the glory of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. Russia demands their immediate destruction, while NATO claims they are unimportant. Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine to denazify the country. But, according to Westerners, there…
(2025-01-24). Capitalism is Smartphones and Eugenics. counterpunch.org We've entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. "They're eating cats, they're eating dogs," Trump had exclaimed frantically, echoing words that could've been uttered by a Klansman in the early 1920s, but now that very same level of toxicity having been beamed into households all across the world for whoever has the stomach to bear
(2025-01-24). A Major Milestone In Socialist History. popularresistance.org One of the most legendary scenes of revolutionary joy in the history of the world socialist movement is said to have occurred when Vladimir Lenin reportedly went out to dance in the snow in order to celebrate the fact that the recently minted Soviet Republic had outlasted the Paris Commune. The workers who had taken over the French capital in 1871 and launched a collective project of self-governance were able to hold out for seventy-two days before the ruling class trounced this experiment in a more egalitarian world.
(2025-01-24). A Major Milestone in Socialist History. blackagendareport.com
(2025-01-24). A Major Milestone in Socialist History — A Review of People's China at 75: The Flag Stays Red. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill "People's China at 75: The Flag Stays Red" analyzes the People's Republic of China and its ongoing socialist project. One of the most legendary scenes of revolutionary joy in the history of the world socialist movement is said to have occurred when Vladimir Lenin reportedly went out to dance in the snow in…
(2025-01-24). Arrested Gaza protester speaks to the WSWS about police crackdown. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with one of the 77 people arrested as part of the anti-democratic police crackdown on last Saturday's national Gaza protest in London.
(2025-01-24). Venezuela: Diosdado Cabello denunció que la oposición extremista comanda la red de coyotes que opera desde Estados Unidos. cubadebate.cu El primer vicepresidente del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela aseguró que los opositores Carlos Vecchio, David Smolansky, Julio Borges, Leopoldo López, Juan Guaidó, Miguel Pizarro y otros son los que van al frente de esta organización criminal.
(2025-01-24). Belarus: The "dictatorship" of stability and peace. strategic-culture.su
(2025-01-24). Elon Musk 'jokes about Hitler' after Netanyahu defends X boss. newarab.com The world's wealthiest man Musk posted on his social media platform X a series of puns about members of
(2025-01-24). Trump Vows To 'Expand' US territory, Invokes Manifest Destiny. popularresistance.org Donald Trump began his second term as president by vowing to grow the US empire. | In his inauguration speech, Trump used explicitly imperialist rhetoric, promising to "expand our territory". | He even invoked "Manifest Destiny", a concept employed by 19th-century US colonialists to justify ethnically cleansing Indigenous nations and stealing their land. | "The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons", Trump said, adding, "And we will pursue…
(2025-01-24). Is the Collapse Coming Soon? counterpunch.org What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human extinction, and even "existential risk"? That scholarly attention in both Europe and America turned to something that was labeled "collapsology" in 2015, and an academic volume of Futures
(2025-01-24). Donald Trump is the Empire unmasked. strategic-culture.su
(2025-01-24). Five things Friday roundup: Things I've learned living in Babylon. anabaptistworld.org For followers of Christ, living in the shadow of empire is nothing new. The early Christians navigated life within the Roman Empire, interpreting its systems of power through the coded imagery of Babylon — another empire — found in the book of Revelation. Similarly, the early Anabaptists, whose movement began 500 years ago this week, …
(2025-01-24). Hungary in Netanyahu visit invite despite ICC arrest warrant. newarab.com Hungary has Israel's
(2025-01-24). Umukuuka secures housing deal for Mbale, returns Wednesday from Trump inauguration. independent.co.ug Umukuuka III is was one of the very few African political and cultural leaders invited to President Trump's week-long inauguration festivities Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT | Uwelukoosi Jude Mike Mudoma, the Umukuuka III of the Bamasaaba/Bagisu, has secured a partnership with a United States business firm interested in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and the development …