2025-02-03: News Headlines

WSWS (2025-02-03). Hundreds of thousands demonstrate across Germany against promotion of the fascist AfD. wsws.org The decision in Germany's parliament to allow the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to secure a majority with its votes has triggered a political earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of people have since taken to the streets to protest against the return of fascism.

Richard D. Wolff, Counter Punch. (2025-02-03). Settler Colonialism: 'It Ends With Us' In Palestine And Israel. popularresistance.org My birth emerged from European capitalism's fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s—1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel's experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the current Palestine-Israel catastrophe. | My reasons or qualifications to write such an article start with the fact that my maternal grandmother and grandfather were killed at the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp. My father's sister was killed in Auschwitz. My mother and her sister spent years in different concentration camps. Because of these events, my parents fled Europe…

Olivia Barber (2025-02-03). Shocking poll finds Reform could win 70 seats if an election were called now. leftfootforward.org Reform UK could win 76 seats in Parliament if a general election were held now, according to new polling commissioned by anti-fascist campaign group Hope not Hate. | Of the 76 seats, Reform would pick up 60 from Labour, 10 from the Conservatives and one from the Lib Dems. The remaining five are already held by Reform. | Even more worringly, Hope not Hate's survey of over 17,000 voters suggests that with a 3% swing to Reform from both Labour and the Conservatives, Reform UK could be on course to win up to 169 seats. | Labour would still be the biggest party with 287 MPs, down from 402, while the Tories would go…

infobrics (2025-02-03). Kiev sending schizophrenics to the front lines. infobrics.org There seems to be no limit to the anti-humanitarian practices of the neo-Nazi regime.

infobrics (2025-02-03). Hungary and Poland could claim territories of Ukraine amid ethnic tensions. infobrics.org Ukraine's aggressive and chauvinistic strand of nationalism alienates its neighbors and is often seen by them as a potential threat, causing ethnic and religious tensions. The matter thus extends even beyond Russian-Ukrainian relations.

_____ (2025-02-03). Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism, and the New Cold War. transcend.org 28 Jan 2025 | Yanis Varoufakis delves into the seismic developments of January 2025, spotlighting the transformative impact of DeepSeek—a groundbreaking Chinese AI company that has sent shockwaves through the global tech and financial landscapes.

_____ (2025-02-03). US Capitalism just Got a Black Eye. transcend.org 27 Jan 2025 – The Story behind Today's Stock Market Tank – Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google became too big, fat, and musclebound for innovation. Instead of invention, they specialized in marginal improvements. China's DeepSeek came up with more advanced AI than all US Big Tech companies.

Peter Koenig (2025-02-03). Europà§ische Union erleichtert Sklavenhandel in Nordafrika. globalresearch.ca Angesichts der abscheulichen Kolonialgeschichte Europas und der immer grà∂àüer werdenden Tyrannei der heutigen Europà§ischen Union (EU), ist es wenig àºberraschend, dass die EU den Sklavenhandel in Nordafrika erleichtert, vor allem durch die Zerstà∂rung des heutigen chaotischen Libyens, verursacht von Frankreichs …

cameron orr (2025-02-03). Black lives still matter. cpusa.org The historic Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which reached a crescendo in 2020 with the George Floyd Uprisings, has been a generation-defining political moment for many working people in the United States. Indeed, the mass demonstrations of 2020 mobilized millions, making them the largest protest movement in our country's history. | Those who once considered themselves "apolitical" then saw the value of political life. Many who considered themselves "centrists" or even "conservative" no longer identified with those labels. Progressive and socialist organizations swelled with new membership and activity, inc…

Staff (2025-02-03). Nueve países representados en el IV Congreso Internacional Juriscuba. cubadebate.cu El programa incluirá intervenciones especiales, conferencias magistrales, ponencias y trabajo en paneles para propiciar el intercambio y la superación. Todos tributan al reforzamiento de la seguridad jurídica de la mayor de las Antillas, en función de hacer prevalecer garantías y principios fundamentales para el Estado socialista de derecho y justicia social.

Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. (2025-02-03). Venezuelan President Criticized For Not Being A Proper Dictator. popularresistance.org Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment's most demonized "authoritarian regimes" do next? | Bloomberg approvingly quotes an opposition-supporting Venezuelan living in Chile that Venezuela's scheduling of parliamentary and regional elections in April is a desperate attempt by President Maduro to "obtain some kind of legitimacy for the regime." | Not to be caught in the trap of participating in elections, US-backed far-right Venezuelan "opposition leader"

Ralph Nader (2025-02-03). Underestimating Americans: A Coming Plunge of Dictator Donald. counterpunch.org Convicted felon Donald Trump has declared war on Americans. In less than two weeks, he has become the dictator, a role he celebrated in his campaign. He is using illegal executive orders as poisoned spears against just about every program the federal government administers to advance the health, safety, and economic well-being of all Americans.

Ed Sykes (2025-02-03). Jewish protester fears police 'losing their humanity' amid ongoing pro-Palestine march fallout. thecanary.co After the aggressive policing against anti-genocide protesters in London on 18 January, the Canary spoke with Carolyn Gelenter, who has regularly attended the marches in solidarity with Palestinians. Gelenter's father was a Holocaust survivor, and she believes it's important to openly express her opposition to Israel's crimes in Gaza. She previously told us about Met …

euobserver (2025-02-03). Guess who isn't invited to Europe's Holocaust memorials? euobserver.com Does the European Commission think that one has to be a Zionist to remember the Holocaust? Apparently so.

Richard C. Cook (2025-02-03). As World War III Winds Down, a Brief Prognosis. globalresearch.ca I believe the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire has lost the quarter-century-long World War III that began with 9/11, i.e., the Neocons' "New Pearl Harbor." | The U.S is now beginning its own solitary "long retreat" to "Fortress America." | Future wars are likely to …

Atilio Borón (2025-02-03). Trump: Fast and Furious. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Boron — Jan 22, 2025 | Donald Trump's return to the White House and the signals he sent from the moment of his inauguration (which continued late into the night at the unexpected press conference that took place in the Oval Office) were tinged with an alarming mixture of arrogance and overconfidence. If anyone still doubts that the United States is the center of an empire, the show put on by the New York tycoon dispels all doubts. But the radical nature of his proposals and his verbiage express, better than anything else, the harsh reality that US imperialism is experiencing an inexorable decline.

_____ (2025-02-03). (Norwegian-Norsk) Hva kommer etter USAs imperium? transcend.org En nà∏kkelhypotese i The fall of the US empire — and then what? er at etterfà∏lgersystemet til det amerikanske imperiet verken vil và¶re et hegemoni drevet av en stor aktà∏r som Kina eller EU, eller globalisering drevet av transnasjonale selskaper, men en verden av regioner med regionale valutaer.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2025-02-03). US to Impose Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China on Feb. 1 and Tyranny on America. Paul C. Roberts. globalresearch.ca The US will impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 10 percent on China, the Trump White House said. The purpose of tariffs is to protect domestic manufacturers and their work forces. What American manufacturers and workers are …

Peter Koenig (2025-02-03). European Union Facilitates Slave Trade in North Africa. globalresearch.ca Knowing Europe's horrendous colonial history and today's European Union's (EU) ever-growing tyranny, there is little surprise in the EU's facilitating slave trade in Northern Africa, mostly through Europe-NATO's destruction of today's chaotic Libya. The latter with the support of the …

WSWS (2025-02-03). South Carolina executes Marion Bowman, Jr.: "I'm innocent of the crimes I'm here to die for" wsws.org Bowman's execution was the third carried out in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted executions as pharmaceutical companies stopped supplying lethal injection drugs, fearing public concern over suffering of those executed.

A A (2025-02-02). Elon Musk's salute highlights the contact between fascism and liberalism. strategic-culture.su

newarab (2025-02-02). Italian journalist names self as target of Israel spyware attack. newarab.com An Italian journalist was the first person to publicly proclaim that he has been targeted by Francesco Cancellato, who investigates fascism in

english.palinfo.com (2025-02-02). Making America great again by ethnically cleansing the Palestinian peopleIronically, Trump is adopting a policy to prevent and restrict immigration to the US, although America is built by immigrants including his family. While he preaches America's right to do so, he wants to drive the local Palestinian indigenous people out of the land of their ancestors and allow Jewish immigrants to expand their fascist, racist, re-actionist apartheid state onto it.

Staff (2025-02-02). Así recibieron algunos panameños a Marco Rubio en su visita al centroamericano. cubadebate.cu Por su parte, organizaciones populares protagonizaron una vigilia en la Plaza 5 de Mayo, en las inmediaciones de la Asamblea Nacional (Parlamento), donde quemaron banderas norteamericanas y enarbolaron carteles con las figuras de Rubio y de Trump, a quienes catalogan como fascistas.

aljazeera (2025-02-02). Germans protest at conservative cooperation with far right on migration. aljazeera.com Protesters say CDU head Merz broke post-Nazi norm of never passing any rule with the support of far-right parties.

A A (2025-02-02). Anche l'Italia a Davos per svendere la sanità. strategic-culture.su Non poteva mancare una rappresentanza dall'Italia all'annuale Forum Economico Mondiale, ove il gotha della finanza transnazionale si riunisce per decidere come soggiogare i popoli. | Segue nostro La cornice del WEF | Il Forum Economico Mondiale di Davos (World Economic Forum, WEF) è un incontro annuale che si tiene a Davos, una località sciistica nelle Alpi svizzere. Fondato nel 1971 dal professor Klaus Schwab, riunisce leader politici,…

Lawrence Reichard (2025-02-02). A Former Danish Diplomat on the Future of Greenland. counterpunch.org On the night of June 21, 1976, summer solstice, I flew from New York to Stockholm. I sat at a north-side window and watched in wonder as the sun went down, down, down, but not under, and rose again. We arrived in Stockholm at 3: 30 a.m., and it was broad daylight. It's an odd thing […] | To read this article, log in
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Staff (2025-02-02). 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. An Expert Discussion. defenddemocracy.press Jan 29, 2025 On January 29, 2025, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to historical memory in the context of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The UN has declared January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date is dedicated to the liberation of the concentration camp by Soviet troops …

Ana Luisa Brown (2025-02-02). Putin predicts Europe's subordination to Trump. plenglish.com Moscow, Feb 2 (Prensa Latina) Russian President Vladimir Putin today predicted that his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, will make the European elites "bend at his feet" and subordinate them to his orders.

News Desk, The Cradle. (2025-02-02). Syria's De Facto Authorities Execute 'Sweeping' Neoliberal Reforms. popularresistance.org The self-appointed transitional government in Syria is undertaking sweeping internal reforms, including privatizing state-run enterprises and laying off a third of the public sector, as authorities say they are shifting to "a competitive free-market economy." | In an interview with Reuters, ex-officials of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who are serving as cabinet ministers for transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa — former ISIS and Al-Qaeda commander Abu Mohammad al-Julani — say they have a "wide scope" of plans to shrink the state, including removing thousands of "ghost employees."

Martin Hacthoun (2025-02-02). Italy reports 750,000 fewer young people than a decade ago. plenglish.com In 2014, Italy had 12.8 million young people in this age group, while ten years later their number has fallen to around 12.1 million, according to a study by the Research Centre of the General Confederation of Italian Artisans (CGIA), that also brings together entrepreneurs of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. | The decline in the youth population over the decade reached 5.8% and mainly affected the southern regions of the country, where it reached an alarming 14.7 percentage points, with the most serious situation in the provinces of South Sardinia, Oristano and Isernia, where it reached 25.4, 23.4 and…

Peter Koenig (2025-02-02). 2025 — Endless Chaos Towards a One World Government or Vicious Confusion? Towards a One World Tyranny. Peter Koenig. globalresearch.ca This article was first published on January 25, 2025 | *** | Aren't we all so happy as chaos is upon us — planned chaos for confusion and destruction, and for those who see through it, evoking a smile? | It is like …

Staff (2025-02-02). RFK Jr Pressed on Whether He and Trump Will 'Cave to Big Pharma' on Medicare Drug Prices. defenddemocracy.press "Will you defend the law in the Inflation Reduction Act which already is negotiating prescription drug prices?" Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Kennedy during his second confirmation hearing. By Jake Johnson Jan 30, 2025 Senate Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Health …

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