(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). 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). 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). 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). 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 …
(2025-01-06). Ed Davey appears to be the only politician talking sense over Elon Musk. thecanary.co As batshit tech billionaire Elon Musk further spreads racist fake news and disinformation across his X feed, while courting far-right fascists (probably because he is one), UK Lib Dem leader Ed Davey appears to be one of the few politicians taking sense — as he directly calls for the UK government to intervene. Elon Musk: […] | By
(2025-01-06). Jan. 6, 2021 — Never forget Trump's fascist coup. peoplesworld.org 
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 …
(2025-01-06). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Neo-Nazi. globalresearch.ca
(2025-01-06). Footage shows senior Tories laughing at Nazi jokes at private members club event. leftfootforward.org Disturbing footage has emerged showing senior Tories at a private member's club laughing at Nazi jokes with the host singing "we're all racist now". | The clip, which has drawn much condemnation, was obtained by the London Economic and was from a dinner hosted by right-wing media outlet Guido Fawkes at the Carlton Club in London which was attended by former prime minister Boris Johnson and wife Carrie, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, ex-PM Liz Truss, former cabinet secretary Robert Jenrick and Reform MP Lee Anderson among others. | In the clip, comic Dominic Frisby can be heard singing: "We've lost our way, lon…
(2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…
(2025-01-06). Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics. democracynow.org 
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…
(2025-01-06). An American Psychopathocracy. "How Google and Facebook Shut Down the American Mind". "Supercomputers Make the Ultimate Decision" globalresearch.ca No doubt you have noticed, with the complete inability of any public intellectual to come to terms with the series of false flag attacks in New Orleans, New York, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. Nor are any of them, including the …
(2025-01-06). IYSSE (Sri Lanka) public meeting in Kandy: How to defeat the IMF austerity program. wsws.org The IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University.
(2025-01-06). "Feminist foreign policy" in action: German Foreign Minister Baerbock meets al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria. wsws.org When Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her "Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy" in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was "ultimately about enforcing geostrategic and economic interests." If necessary, this would also be done in "close cooperation with the most reactionary regimes in the world."
(2025-01-06). 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.
(2025-01-06). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org
(2025-01-06). There Is No Need To Wait For Revolution Or Paradise. thealtworld.com There is no need to wait for the great revolution to begin fighting against our rulers. There is no need to wait for things to get better to experience this world as paradise. The time for both of these things is now. | Right at this very moment you can begin a daily practice of sowing the seeds of revolution. You as an individual cannot defeat the empire yourself, but it is absolutely within your power to open a few people's eyes to the reality that the status quo is unacceptable, and that a better world is possible. It is absolutely within your power to show people how they've been lied to their whole lives abo…
(2025-01-06). 1421 — 1434. transcend.org In 1421 the Chinese traveled to the Americas. They came, saw, did not conquer, many stayed. Unlike the West no empire, no sucking tentacles. Also unlike the West they learnt, and preserved much of it. The center of the world now moves toward China.
(2025-01-06). Age of Anxiety. transcend.org 30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
(2025-01-06). The myth of the sustainable enterprise. onlineopinion.com.au The reality is that such organisations rarely exist, and those that do aren't sustainable.