2024-12-31: News Headlines

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2024-12-31). PFLP-GC Condemns Zionist Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital. indybay.org The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command condemns the Nazi Zionist terrorist army's storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and burning it after imposing a siege on it with fire, systematically targeting it and the medical staff, torturing patients and accompanying staff and forcing them to leave it, not to mention the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, some of whom were burned to death as a result of the fire spreading throughout the hospital, in a complete war crime that is added to the record of Nazi crimes committed by the enemy in its violation of international humanitarian laws.

David Issacharoff (2024-12-31). 'We must have a more relaxed view of our past': Hanging out with Germany's extremist AfD party. haaretz.com At a well-attended speech by Alternative for Germany co-founder Alexander Gauland, there was much talk of immigration, Israel-Gaza, Trump and Putin — and the Nazi Party. 'We cannot live properly if we are told that our past is one of crime,' one AfD lawmaker tells Haaretz…

aljazeera (2024-12-31). North Korea's Kim hails 'comrade' Putin in New Year's greeting. aljazeera.com North Korean leader expresses hope that Moscow will defeat 'neo-Nazism and achieve a great victory' in Ukraine.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2024-12-31). J.P. Morgan Heatlhcare Investment Conf & United Healthcare Coming To Town 1/13/24. indybay.org J.P. Morgan Healthcare Investment conference will be held at the St. Francis Hotel on January 13, 2025 and it will have executives from all the insurance companies and capitalists who want to make more money off of healthcare including United Healthcare. There will be a rally at 4: 00 PM at the hotel to demand an end to this healthcare madness under capitalism.

Editor (2024-12-31). 20 Years after his death, Gary Webb's truth is still dangerous. mronline.org Twenty years ago this month, on December 10, 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stretch of depression.

palestinechronicle.com (2024-12-31). Canadian Media Prioritizes 'Antisemitism' over Freezing Gaza Babies Babies are dying of hypothermia. Cats have joined stray dogs in eating the dead. The last functioning hospital in the north has been burned down. | | Amidst this ever-worsening holocaust in Gaza, the media and politicians want us to believe Canadian Jews are the real victims.

Jean Andreau (2024-12-31). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Binoy Kampmark (2024-12-31). Greenland Redux: Trump and America's Continuing Obsession. counterpunch.org History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen through sham contracts and undertakings. They might also be purchased. The United States made much of the vast property sale in acquiring an empire. The Louisiana purchase of 1803

Juan M. Garcia (2024-12-31). Rebelliousness in the final blow to Batista's tyranny in Cuba. plenglish.com Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, Dec 31 (Prensa Latina) The forces of Batista's tyranny received on December 31, 1958, "the hell of rebellion" by Column 2 Antonio Maceo under the command of Camilo Cienfuegos, in Yaguajay, in central Cuba.

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout. (2024-12-30). Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender To Fascism. popularresistance.org For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit and economic efficiency. | But in reality, neoliberalism consolidates wealth in the hands of a financial elite, celebrates ruthless individualism, promotes staggering levels of inequality, perpetuates systemic injustices like racism and militarism, and commodifies everything, leaving no…

Michael Albert (2024-12-30). Fascism and Radical Left Lunacy. counterpunch.org Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the American and the world stage such as we have never seen before. Day one, two, three…infinity. He will attempt to unleash the hounds of horror. Why? To impose his horrendous agenda—of course. But

Henry A. Giroux (2024-12-30). Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism. globalresearch.ca For decades,

WSWS (2024-12-30). Trudeau government scrapes all names from "Victims of Communism" monument in attempt to hide Canada's patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. wsws.org No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state's longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2024-12-30). PFLP-GC Condemns Zionist Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital. indybay.org The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command condemns the Nazi Zionist terrorist army's storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and burning it after imposing a siege on it with fire, systematically targeting it and the medical staff, torturing patients and accompanying staff and forcing them to leave it, not to mention the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, some of whom were burned to death as a result of the fire spreading throughout the hospital, in a complete war crime that is added to the record of Nazi crimes committed by the enemy in its violation of international humanitarian laws.

A A (2024-12-30). Lo sviluppo delle relazioni bilaterali tra Vietnam e Giappone. strategic-culture.su A inizio dicembre, il Presidente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Vietnam, Tr·∫ßn Thanh M·∫´n, ha visitato ufficialmente Giappone e Singapore, rafforzando i legami diplomatici con entrambi i Paesi. Questo articolo esplora il rafforzamento delle relazioni bilaterali tra Vietnam e Giappone, con prospettive future promettenti. | Segue nostro Ad inizio dicembre, il Presidente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Vietnam…

A a (2024-12-30). Un anno di disastri "all'italiana" strategic-culture.su Il risultato del 2024 per l'Italia e il governo di Giorgia Meloni e quali previsioni si possono fare per il 2025? | Segue nostro Un'Italia che non cambia | In Italia abbiamo un detto in politica "cambiare tutto affinché niente cambi": cambiano i governi, cambiano i partiti politici, cambiano le dinamiche internazionali, ma alla fine non cambia niente nel Paese. Come mai? Il problema è radicato nella incapacità di andare oltre il sistema…

WSWS (2024-12-30). What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3. wsws.org What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a "sect" of an "orthodoxy" disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.

WSWS (2024-12-30). Petition against the frame-up of the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey. wsws.org The Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey has launched a petition against the frame-up "terror" charges targeting its leader and many members. The World Socialist Web Site and the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, notwithstanding their political differences with the SLP, oppose this sham police operation and support the petition.

Chris Walker (2024-12-30). Elon Musk Op-Ed in German Newspaper Prompts Editor to Resign in Protest. truthout.org An editor for a prominent newspaper in Germany has resigned in protest after the paper published an op-ed in which billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a far right political party. Earlier this month, Musk signaled his support for Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of elections set to be held in that country in February. AfD is widely recognized as a reactionary political party… |

Staff (2024-12-30). "Total Moral, Ethical Failure": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel's Genocide in Gaza. democracynow.org Since October 7, 2023, Israel's onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians and injured more than 108,000. At the same time, Gaza officials continue to accuse Israel of deliberately blocking aid deliveries. Human rights organizations are condemning Israel for attacking Palestinian lifesaving infrastructure, including Gaza's water supply and medical system. All of this has led to the world's leading specialist on the subject of genocide to declare Israel is carrying out a combination of "genocidal actions, ethnic cleansing and annexation of the Gaza Strip." Omer Bartov,…

Mark Taliano (2024-12-30). Continuity of Barbarism. Empire and Its Proxies Destroy Healthcare and Humanity as Policy. Mark Taliano. globalresearch.ca In Syria and Gaza, the mechanics of Western-perpetrated terror are eerily similar. | Empire's proxies, al Qaeda, ISIS and affiliates in Syria, and Zionists in occupied Palestine, destroy healthcare as policy. | In February, 2023, journalist Sara Salloum explained that, | "the years …

Jean Andreau (2024-12-30). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-12-30). The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward.

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