infobrics (2023-01-09). Russia-India Trade to Break Record in 2022. infobrics.org Russian and Indian relations are developing as the world tries to isolate Moscow in light of the Ukraine war…

infobrics (2023-01-09). Russia's Rosatom Sends 'More Advanced' Fuel Option for Indian Nuclear Plant. infobrics.org Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom earlier this year sent a "more advanced" fuel option for a nuclear power plant in southern India, an Indian government minister told parliament…

Federico Fuentes (2023-01-09). Brazil: 'Stop the coup offensive' says Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) as extreme right protesters storm Congress. greenleft.org.au Brazil's Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) has condemned the invasion by former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro supporters of the country's National Congress, Federal Supreme Court and presidencial residency, arguing it "represents an attempted coup d'état", reports Federico Fuentes.

Censored News (2023-01-08). Live Reno: Paiute and Shoshone Rally to Halt Lithium Mine at Thacker Pass as Court Begins. indybay.org The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and other opponents of the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine marched to the Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse on Thursday morning and are now rallying outside. | Inside the building, a federal judge is now scheduled to hear arguments from attorneys representing tribes, environmental groups, and a local rancher who have all sued to halt the mine, as well as from Lithium Nevada—the company behind the mine— and the Bureau of Land Management, which permitted the project.

The Third Pole (2023-01-08). Shrinking Glaciers threaten Chinese and Indian Energy Transitions. juancole.com By Alok Gupta ( Third Pole ) As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects in the Hindu Kush Himalayas is increasing. A recent study on the state of a glacier on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau raises questions about the region's long-term water supply and …

Editor (2023-01-08). Trumpism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. scheerpost.com By Michael Brenner | Trump is dead — long live Trumpism! Donald Trump's political demise is a personal implosion his narcissistic self punctured by a thousand wounds from the slings and arrows of his vengeful victims, his erstwhile collaborators and scheming usurpers. Yet, the movement he inspired and instigated is very much alive. It is a grave error to equate the man's fate with the fate of the vast body of followers who -at this time constitute the most potent force in the country's public life. That error is manifest in the celebration by Democrats at their 'triumph' in losing only on…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-08). Science Saturday: Aspiring to deliver new cures for complex conditions. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic is building toward a future when biologics can cure cancer, kidney disease and diabetes. Mayo marks 2022 as a year of significant strides in accelerating science to make and deliver regenerative biotherapeutics. The goal is to offer new options, based on rigorous research in cell and gene therapies, for disorders with few available treatments. The Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics has a new strategy of advancing regenerative discoveries toward early-stage clinical trials and industry…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-08). New year, new goals, new edition of 'The Mayo Clinic Diet'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Each new year brings new hope and many weight loss goals that often go unrealized. "The foundation of any weight loss program, whether it involves different types of programs, medications, procedures ≠ ≠— it does get down to lifestyle and diet and physical activity. The way people go about this sometimes isn't productive. Just starving and trying to exercise for a couple of hours a day usually doesn't work well," says Dr. Donald Hensrud, an internal…

ecns.cn (2023-01-08). Cultural relics to get better protection. ecns.cn The fourth national census of cultural relics in China will be organized this year by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, it was announced at a national conference on cultural relics in Beijing on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-08). China National Nuclear Corporation reports steady growth in power generation. ecns.cn China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), one of the country's largest nuclear power operators, said the company had generated nearly 218.74 kilowatt-hours of electricity from commercial operation in 2022, up 11.17 percent year on year.

ecns.cn (2023-01-08). Daxing int'l airport to resume international passenger flights. ecns.cn Beijing Daxing International Airport will resume international passenger flights from Jan. 17.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-08). Consumer Health: Do you know the symptoms of glaucoma? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about treating this group of eye conditions. About 3 million people in the U.S. have glaucoma, and it's the second-leading cause of blindness worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Glaucoma is a group of eye conditions that damage the optic nerve, often due to abnormally high pressure in your eye. Elevated eye pressure is due to a buildup of…

Alex Koplos (2023-01-07). Alto a la represión racista: °Permitid la entrada en EE.UU. a todos los inmigrantes! workers.org El Paso, Texas, el 26 de diciembre de 2023 El 19 de diciembre, 400 soldados de la Guardia Nacional de Texas fueron desplegados en mi ciudad natal de El Paso para "ayudar" con la migración masiva en la frontera con Juárez, México. El estado desplegó estos cuerpos especiales imperiales de . . . |

G. Dunkel (2023-01-07). Threat of more U.N. sanctions on Haiti. workers.org While the huge social, economic and political problems of Haiti have slipped out of the news, if anything they have intensified over the past few months. Credit: HaàØti-Liberté According to Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of BINUH (U.N. Integrated Office in . . . |

Marcia G Yerman (2023-01-07). New Documentaries Explore Censorship and Suppression of History in Israel. truthout.org Two movies screened at the most recent the Other Israel Film Festival examined the theft of collective and personal histories from Palestinians and Israelis by the Israeli government and its military machine. The documentaries by these two filmmakers have the explicit goal of questioning the legacy histories put into play by the Israeli government and hasbara proponents. Following in the footsteps… |

Vijay Prashad (2023-01-07). South Africans are fighting for crumbs: A conversation with trade union leader Irvin Jim. greenleft.org.au The answers for South Africa will have to come from struggle, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) leader Irvin Jim tells Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-07). A Look Back on Three Years of China's Anti-Covid-19 Fight. orinocotribune.com By Tings Chak Jan 01, 2023 | I arrived in Shanghai, 36 hours after leaving Sà£o Paulo, a near deportation in South Africa, and a canceled connecting flight. It was March 21, 2020. In the following days, China implemented its mandatory centralized quarantine for all international travelers. Exactly a week later, on March 28, China started its travel ban N…

The Conversation (2023-01-07). Four Ways Netanyahu's new Far-Right Government threatens Israeli Democracy. juancole.com By Boaz Atzili, American University School of International Service | (The Conversation) Democracy is not just about holding elections. It is a set of institutions, ideas and practices that allow citizens a continuous, decisive voice in shaping their government and its policies. The new Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and sworn in …

Anand Naidoo (2023-01-07). The Heat: U.S. Prison Slavery. america.cgtn.com Does slavery still exist in the United States of America? This past November, four U.S. states voted to remove the last vestiges of slavery from their state constitutions. Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited on the national level, and forced labor is still allowed in …

The Lancet (2023-01-07). [Editorial] The Lancet at 200: a start, but more to do. thelancet.com Thomas Wakley, a 27-year-old apothecary, surgeon, and sometime boxer, founded The Lancet in 1823. Wakley's intention was to publish reports of metropolitan hospital lectures, at the time a highly profitable activity for a small coterie of powerful physicians and surgeons in London. In addition to dismantling this private monopoly over medical knowledge, Wakley also hoped to provide "a correct description" of important clinical cases—"a complete Chronicle of the current Literature". His audience was national (city and country doctors) and global ("Colonial Practitioners"—a group for whom we must make o…

_____ (2023-01-07). Cuba Says Biden Applies Blockade More Aggressively Than His Predecessors. popularresistance.org In his address at a conversation series on "Cuba in the Foreign Policy of the United States of America," held on December 14 at the Higher Institute of International Relations in Havana, Fernández de Cossío took aim at the Biden administration's enforcement of the blockade against Cuba, stating, "there can be no doubt that the economic blockade is the defining factor in the bilateral relations" between the United States and Cuba. | Biden pledged during his 2020 presidential campaign that he would "try to reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families." In 2021, he claimed, "We…

_____ (2023-01-07). Inside The Supreme Court Case That Could Chill A Strike Wave. popularresistance.org The Supreme Court is about to consider whether employers can sue unions for perishable goods lost during a strike by claiming they're intentional property damage. | On Jan. 10, the Court will hear oral arguments in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174, in which a Seattle concrete company is seeking to overturn a Washington Supreme Court decision dismissing its suit against Local 174 for the costs of several truckloads it had to throw out after drivers walked out in 2017. The state court held that Glacier had to wait until the National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] ruled on whether…

Dongsheng News (2023-01-07). End of Peak Cases of COVID-19. dissidentvoice.org This week's News on China in 2 minutes. ‚Ä¢ End of peak cases of COVID-19 ‚Ä¢ U.S. boycott affects energy transition ‚Ä¢ Huawei makes progress in 10nm microchip manufacturing ‚Ä¢ World's largest national park system…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). Latest US Arms Shipment to Ukraine Cannot Solve Kiev's Fundamental Problem. libya360.wordpress.com Update on the ongoing conflict in and around Ukraine: — The US announced a major military aid package for Ukraine including 50 Bradley fighting vehicles, 18 M109 self-propelled 155mm howitzers, additional MRAP and Humvees as well as additional ammunition for various systems; — Despite the relatively large size of the package compared with the last…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). Nuclear Fusion Hype: A Boost for U.S. Armaments, Not Clean Energy. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Scheffer Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, led a press event on Dec. 13 to announce a major scientific breakthrough at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There, researchers had aimed an array of the world's most powerful lasers (192 in all) at a tiny pellet for a fraction of a second. This pellet…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). Steve Bannon and China's Deep State. libya360.wordpress.com Matthew Ehret "I consider Xi Jinping the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world. —George Soros, 2021 "China has emerged as the greatest economic and national security threat the United States has ever faced" —Steve Bannon, 2019 How to Overthrow the Communist Party of China On June 4, 2020, purged billionaire deep state operative…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). "Stop US Interference": Interview with the Labour Party of Taiwan. libya360.wordpress.com No Cold War No Cold War is pleased to publish the following interview of Wu Rong-yuan, Chairperson of the Labour Party of Taiwan, conducted by Wim De Ceukelaire. The interview has been edited for clarity. In 1949, when the Communist Party of China established the People's Republic on the mainland of the country, Chiang Kai-shek,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). Sudan: Junta Deputy Chairman Escalates Rhetoric Against Victims of Violence in Darfur. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Victims of violence in camps Darfur. Photo: Darfur Network for Monitoring and Documentation Over the past two weeks, over 16,000 people were displaced in a fresh round of violent attacks in Darfur in which the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces allegedly played a key role. Now its head and the second-in-command of Sudan's junta,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). Why the HIMARS is So Difficult to Target. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter Just seconds after the stroke of midnight on December 31, in the early moments of 2023, a US-made M-142 HIMARS (highly mobile artillery rocket system), operated by the Ukrainian armed forces, fired off a pod of six Guided Multiple Rocket Launch System (GMLRS), each with a 200-pound unitary high-explosive warhead that is guided…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-07). Zelensky Complicit in Corporate Takeover of Ukraine: 'It's an Investment'. libya360.wordpress.com John ParkerIn 2020, farmers blocked the parliament building in Kiev to protest legislation allowing the sale of agricultural land. "Your money is not charity, it's an investment." That's what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21. He came asking for more billions to add…

Kathy Kelly (2023-01-07). Peace Activists Take on the Pentagon's Corporate "Merchants of Death" truthout.org Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients, the international president of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu walked through the wreckage and prepared to deliver condolences to family members of those who had been killed. A brief video, taped in October, 2015… |

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-07). A Look Back on 3 Years of China's Anti-COVID-19 Fight. orinocotribune.com By Tings Chak Jan 01, 2023 | I arrived in Shanghai, 36 hours after leaving Sà£o Paulo, a near deportation in South Africa, and a canceled connecting flight. It was March 21, 2020. In the following days, China implemented its mandatory centralized quarantine for all international travelers. Exactly a week later, on March 28, China started its travel ban N…

Susan Kang (2023-01-07). Damar Hamlin Nearly Died on the Job. Too Many Workers Face Similar Threats. truthout.org On January 2, Damar Hamlin, Buffalo Bills safety and a National Football League (NFL) star, suffered cardiac arrest on the field during a prime-time playoff game, following a "routine" tackle. Millions of fans and other football players were in shock watching as paramedics brought an unconscious Hamlin off the field. Confusion ensued, and while NFL leadership wanted the players to come back to the… |

Victoria Torres (2023-01-07). Peru: Social Movements Declare National Strike, Demand Boluarte's Resignation (+ Evo Morales). orinocotribune.com The indefinite national strike in Peru, called by various social movements of the country, has been continuing since January 4, in demand of a constituent assembly, the release of President Pedro Castillo from prison, and the resignation of de facto President Dina Boluarte and her illegitimate government. | The strike has spread through the country, with the greatest presence in the departments of Apurimac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Puno, Cusco, and Tacna. The protesters demand the closing of the Congress, dominated by the ultra-right, which removed the democratically elected president, Pedro Castillo on December 7, 20…

Alex Koplos (2023-01-07). Alto a la represión racista: °Permitid la entrada en EE.UU. a todos los inmigrantes! workers.org El Paso, Texas, el 26 de diciembre de 2023 El 19 de diciembre, 400 soldados de la Guardia Nacional de Texas fueron desplegados en mi ciudad natal de El Paso para "ayudar" con la migración masiva en la frontera con Juárez, México. El estado desplegó estos cuerpos especiales imperiales de . . . |

G. Dunkel (2023-01-07). Threat of more U.N. sanctions on Haiti. workers.org While the huge social, economic and political problems of Haiti have slipped out of the news, if anything they have intensified over the past few months. Credit: HaàØti-Liberté According to Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of BINUH (U.N. Integrated Office in . . . |

The Conversation (2023-01-07). Four Ways Netanyahu's new Far-Right Government threatens Israeli Democracy. juancole.com By Boaz Atzili, American University School of International Service | (The Conversation) Democracy is not just about holding elections. It is a set of institutions, ideas and practices that allow citizens a continuous, decisive voice in shaping their government and its policies. The new Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and sworn in …

Anand Naidoo (2023-01-07). The Heat: U.S. Prison Slavery. america.cgtn.com Does slavery still exist in the United States of America? This past November, four U.S. states voted to remove the last vestiges of slavery from their state constitutions. Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited on the national level, and forced labor is still allowed in …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-07). A Look Back on Three Years of China's Anti-Covid-19 Fight. orinocotribune.com By Tings Chak Jan 01, 2023 | I arrived in Shanghai, 36 hours after leaving Sà£o Paulo, a near deportation in South Africa, and a canceled connecting flight. It was March 21, 2020. In the following days, China implemented its mandatory centralized quarantine for all international travelers. Exactly a week later, on March 28, China started its travel ban N…

The Lancet (2023-01-07). [Editorial] The Lancet at 200: a start, but more to do. thelancet.com Thomas Wakley, a 27-year-old apothecary, surgeon, and sometime boxer, founded The Lancet in 1823. Wakley's intention was to publish reports of metropolitan hospital lectures, at the time a highly profitable activity for a small coterie of powerful physicians and surgeons in London. In addition to dismantling this private monopoly over medical knowledge, Wakley also hoped to provide "a correct description" of important clinical cases—"a complete Chronicle of the current Literature". His audience was national (city and country doctors) and global ("Colonial Practitioners"—a group for whom we must make o…

Vijay Prashad (2023-01-07). South Africans are fighting for crumbs: A conversation with trade union leader Irvin Jim. greenleft.org.au The answers for South Africa will have to come from struggle, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) leader Irvin Jim tells Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra.

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-06). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

Censored News (2023-01-06). Live Reno: Paiute and Shoshone Rally to Halt Lithium Mine at Thacker Pass as Court Begins. indybay.org The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and other opponents of the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine marched to the Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse on Thursday morning and are now rallying outside. | Inside the building, a federal judge is now scheduled to hear arguments from attorneys representing tribes, environmental groups, and a local rancher who have all sued to halt the mine, as well as from Lithium Nevada—the company behind the mine— and the Bureau of Land Management, which permitted the project.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-06). Daily Round-up | Thousands of Palestinians under threat of displacement in West Bank village & more. peoplesdispatch.org In this episode, we look at stories of evictions in Palestine and India, a report on casualties in the Yemen war, and the conviction of a leader of the Bolivian coup…

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-06). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

India Walton (2023-01-06). My Neighbors Were "Buffalo Strong" During Storm. Officials Were "Buffalo Wrong." truthout.org Buffalo, New York, has long been known as a resilient city of "good neighbors." From our annual snowfall totals to our sports teams, Buffalonians know how to stick together in challenging times. Many of us are struggling to dig out of the past year fraught with crises of epic proportions. Nearly two weeks ago, our city was buried under nearly six feet of snow with 70-mph sustained winds at times. |

teleSUR (2023-01-06). China Set to Lose Its Demographic Lead. telesurenglish.net Data from the United Nations (UN) suggest that India will unseat China as the world's most populous country on April 14 of this year, well ahead of the 2027 forecast. | RELATED: | These estimates would mark the first time in 300 years that a country other than China holds the world's top demographic position. This was expected to occur in 2027. | In China, government policies limiting families to one child contributed greatly to reducing the…

Tsvetana Paraskova (2023-01-06). China and India Are Buying Up Russia's Arctic Oil. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-01-06). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Ground crew at Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport strike; India: 3, 0 Tamil Nadu secondary teachers hold hunger protest; Hundreds of South Australian bus drivers to strike for better wages and safety…

Shriya Singh (2023-01-06). Wickremesinghe's new year gift to Sri Lanka: more austerity measures. peoplesdispatch.org As the government attempts to obtain a bailout from the IMF, it has imposed a series of austerity measures which have been widely condemned by trade unions and civil society…

Vijay Prashad (2023-01-06). Socialism is not a Utopian ideal, but an achievable necessity: The First Newsletter (2023). mronline.org In May 2021, the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, wrote an article urging governments to cut excessive military spending in favour of increasing spending on social and economic development.

Ryan Black (2023-01-06). The Decline & Fall Of Nuclear Disarmament In 2022. progressivehub.net THALIF DEEN | INDEPTHNEWS…

Editor (2023-01-06). Putin Orders Unilateral Ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas, Ukraine Rejects It. scheerpost.com

Margaret Kimberley (2023-01-06). White Lives Matter more in Ukraine. mronline.org The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state.

Editor (2023-01-06). Declassified intelligence files expose inconvenient truths of Bosnian war. mronline.org A trove of intelligence files sent by Canadian peacekeepers expose CIA black ops, illegal weapon shipments, imported jihadist fighters, potential false flags, and stage-managed atrocities.

Editor (2023-01-06). Yoon Administration takes Jeju Massacre out of history textbooks. mronline.org Ministry of Education justified the move as "exploring the foundation of the Republic of Korea based on liberal democracy."

Editor (2023-01-06). Dr. Warren Hern: Humans Are a Metastasizing Cancer Terminating Life on the Planet. scheerpost.com Physician and anthropology scholar Dr. Warren Hern delves into some of the most upsetting aspects of human behavior as a fatal threat to all life on earth in the near future.

Editor (2023-01-06). The Chris Hedges Report: Mickey Huff & Nolan Higden on the Disappearance of Democratic Debate and Dialogue in America. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges Democratic debate and dialogue have all but vanished in the United States. There is widespread censorship imposed by social media platforms, private corporations about which we know nothing, while they know everything about us. Mainstream news outlets champion censorship and deplatforming in the name of democracy. Brian Seltzer, for example, on CNN …

Editor (2023-01-06). The NFL: America's Billion Dollar Blood Sport. scheerpost.com By Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch American football has always been a blood sport. It needs to change or die. Tackle must end. Flags must come. And they will. Why? Because human lives are at stake…and with them, a trillion-dollar industry. A century ago, football players were maimed and died in droves. The college game was a cross between …

Editor (2023-01-06). Two Major Pharmacies Say They Plan to Offer Medication Abortions. Here's What That Could Mean. scheerpost.com The federal government will let retail pharmacies provide mifepristone, which helps end pregnancies, to patients with a prescription. But it's not clear how widespread the impact will be.

John Catalinotto (2023-01-06). 2022: Year of the working class in the USA. workers.org This article was published Jan. 1, 2023, on the sites of La Pluma and Tlaxcala. The working class in the United States burst into action in 2022. Warehouse workers at Amazon, baristas at Starbucks, prisoners, coal miners, nurses, teachers, graduate students and more organized and resisted capital. Many went on . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2023-01-06). Incarcerated lives endangered in freezing conditions. workers.org In analyzing the heroic 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Sam Marcy, the late chairperson of Workers World Party, wrote in the pamphlet: "A Marxist Defense of the L.A. Rebellion" that "Marxism differs from all forms of bourgeois sociology in this most fundamental way: All bourgeois social sciences are directed at covering . . . |

Ryan Black (2023-01-06). Hundreds Of Palestinians In Masafer Yatta Face Forced Displacement By Israel. progressivehub.net PEOPLES DISPATCH…

SP Editor (2023-01-06). The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They're Not the Ones You Think!). scheerpost.com

SP Editor (2023-01-06). Was 2022 the Year the World Turned a Corner on Climate Change? scheerpost.com By Mitchell Beer | The Energy Mix After nearly half a century of delaying the shift off fossil fuels, and "with the climate crisis breaching our front door," 2022 may have been the moment when humanity finally turned a corner on emission reductions, says U.S. climate analyst Dr. Leah Stokes. Despite a year of severe …

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2023-01-06). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike vs. Block Communications continues. workers.org Member, Typographical Local CWA 14156 Striking Post-Gazette newspaper workers join Pittsburgh Starbucks Workers United and other unions Dec. 9 outside the Market Square Starbucks. Credit: Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh. Communications Workers Locals 14827 and 14842, Typographers and Mailers union members, walked out on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Oct. . . . |

Editor (2023-01-06). Cuba Says Biden Applies Blockade Even More Aggressively Than His Predecessors. scheerpost.com

Staff (2023-01-06). UNE pronostica afectación de 185 MW durante pico nocturno de este viernes. cubadebate.cu La Unión Eléctrica estima para la hora pico nocturna una disponibilidad de 2 585 MW y una demanda máxima de 2 700 MW, con un déficit de 115 MW, por lo que si se mantienen las condiciones previstas, se pronostica una afectación de 185 MW en este horario. La UNE prevé que en el horario diurno no se afecte el servicio por déficit de capacidad en el SEN.

_____ (2023-01-06). If You Wouldn't Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don't Ask "The International Community" popularresistance.org As someone who spends a lot of time studying African conflict, I often witness and find myself drawn into discussion with groups demanding that "the international community" do something to stop genocide and mass atrocities in their country. Of course I sympathize with any community under attack because of their racial, ethnic, clan, national, class, or political identity, but why would anyone in Africa or elsewhere in the Global South expect "the international community"—meaning the US-dominated West—to stop genocide and mass atrocities? The US dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan even though the Allies h…

_____ (2023-01-06). Brazil: Defenders Return Embassy to Venezuelan Authorities. popularresistance.org This Monday, January 2, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, deputy Jorge Rodríguez, received the keys to the headquarters of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Brazil from the hands of local social movements that, for more than three years, had protected the residence from attempts of aggression, siege, and attacks by fascism. Rodríguez, accompanied by the new Venezuelan ambassador to Brazil, Manuel Vicente Vadell, as well as the staff that works at the diplomatic headquarters, received the keys to the residence from Joà£o Pedro Stedile, Brazilian social leader.

ecns.cn (2023-01-06). Experts slam curbs on travelers from China. ecns.cn Health experts and international organizations have criticized the requirement by some countries for travelers from China to have a negative COVID-19 test as a condition for entry, saying it will not help prevent the spread of the virus.

ecns.cn (2023-01-06). First China-developed ECMO approved for COVID patients. ecns.cn China's first domestically produced ECMO, the extracorporal life support product known as "artificial lung," has been approved for emergency use, according to the National Medical Product Administration on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-06). CPC International Department outlines China's optimization of COVID-19 response. ecns.cn The International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee recently sent letters to foreign political parties and organizations, explaining the adjustment to China's COVID-19 response policy and its significance to strengthening exchanges and cooperation between countries.

Anonymous669 (2023-01-06). Turkish Intelligence "Neutralized" PKK-Affiliated Communist Leader In Syria's Al-Hasakah. southfront.org Zeki Gurbuz, aka Ahmet Sores. Source: the Anadolu Agency. | The Turkish intelligence has "neutralized" a senior leader of the Marxist—Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Syria's northern region, the Anadolu Agency reported on January 6. | Security sources told the state-run news agency that the communist leader, Zeki Gurbuz, was targeted in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in the countryside of al-Hasakah. | The term "neutralized" is usual…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-01-06). What to Expect from the Government in 2023? More of the Same. dissidentvoice.org For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we're going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government's brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality. Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for a national digital ID system. Local police …

news.un (2023-01-06). Flexible work arrangements, a benefit to all — ILO report. news.un.org Flexible working hours can advance economies and businesses while helping employees and families achieve a better work-life balance, according to a new report launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-06). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-06). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-06). Is the extreme cold bad for your lungs? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The winter storm blowing across much of the country is holding up holiday travel plans as the snow falls and temperatures drop into the below zero digits. The National Weather Service says many parts of the the U.S are affected by the extreme cold. Can freezing temperatures freeze your lungs? "Our body does its best to keep our core temperature about 37 degrees, and our lungs are encased within our thoracic cavity. Unless your whole body is…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-06). Turkish court suspends public funding to left-wing HDP, the third-largest party in parliament. peoplesdispatch.org The move is being seen as part of the larger political persecution unleashed by Erdoƒüan's government, which is likely to face a stiff challenge in the upcoming national elections…

unitedEditor (2023-01-06). "United Nations must bless Turkish-Syrian meetings" uwidata.com By Nahed al Huseini reporting from Damascus / Syria The year 2023 began with an important diplomatic turn. After 11 years of interrupted diplomatic relations, defense ministers of Tàºrkiye and Syria came together in a trilateral meeting in Moscow. Speaking to United World International, Syrian Member of Parliament, Dr. Nabil Toumeh said if conducted with …

unitedEditor (2023-01-06). First official steps after 11 years between Syria and Tàºrkiye; Assassination of a nationalist politician; New Year messages from politicians. uwidata.com At the turn of the New Year, Tàºrkiye's agenda remains intense. Turkish and Syrian officials met in Moscow to overcome the ongoing political dispute between the two countries since the start of the civil war in Syria. The busy agenda in Tàºrkiye continued as we entered the new year. In a central location of the …

_____ (2023-01-06). Russian-Turkish partnership in the area of another Turkish-Syrian crisis. journal-neo.org In today's geopolitical dynamics, Russia and Turkey maintain a relevant regional presence in strategically important regions of the Near and Middle East, where the interests of the two powers can combine and diverge. However, the ruling elites have a high sense of maintaining a balance of power, respecting national interests, avoiding the prospect of radicalization …

_____ (2023-01-06). You Wouldn't Ask Hannibal Lecter To Stop Mass Atrocities. popularresistance.org As someone who spends a lot of time studying African conflict, I often witness and find myself drawn into discussion with groups demanding that "the international community" do something to stop genocide and mass atrocities in their country. Of course I sympathize with any community under attack because of their racial, ethnic, clan, national, class, or political identity, but why would anyone in Africa or elsewhere in the Global South expect "the international community"—meaning the US-dominated West—to stop genocide and mass atrocities? The US dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan even though the Allies h…

_____ (2023-01-06). US Child Care Deficit Impacts Multiple Sectors of the Country. popularresistance.org As Congress delivers nearly a trillion dollars for military spending through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in fiscal year 2023, one of the country's most vulnerable sectors is in the midst of financial turmoil, with lingering effects across the country's workforce. | Within the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package passed in March 2021, a mere $39 billion was allocated towards child care relief funding, an amount proven to not be enough with funds already drying up. | The shortage of money sets up a house-of-cards style effect on child care and the workforce as a whole. Wit…

Albert Bender (2023-01-06). Water Protector and intrepid warrior Joye Braun passes on. peoplesworld.org A dauntless advocate of Indigenous justice walked on with the passing of indomitable Water Protector and fearless Warrior Joye Braun. Joye was the National Pipeline organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). She was a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and passed away on Nov. 13. Joye was only 53 …

Brandon Jourdan (2023-01-06). Belgian trade unions strike over soaring energy prices and inflation from Ukraine war. therealnews.com Belgium's largest unions took to the streets of Brussels on Dec. 16th to demand higher wages, a cap on energy prices, and more bargaining power. This strike came on the wave of other labor actions in Belgium, including a national strike and a three-day rail strike. Organizers say that workers' real wages are being diminished by runaway inflation driven by rapid increases in the costs of energy due to the war in Ukraine. | Director, Camera, Editing: Brandon Jourdan |
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Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). A New Era of De-Westernization Has Begun. libya360.wordpress.com Wang Wen The political equivalence structure between the West and the non-West is increasingly strengthened and is becoming an important feature of world politics in the third decade of the 21st century. Of course, the world in 2023 will not be mellow, but in any case, amid the "de-Westernisation", major changes unseen in a century will continue to evolve in an irreversible way, writes Valdai Club expert Wang Wen. The global significance…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). Gordon M. Hahn: ´ The West Has Been Reckless with Vladimir Putin ª. libya360.wordpress.com Mohsen Abdelmoumen Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You are an expert in geostrategy, what is your view on the current conflict in Ukraine? Gordon M. Hahn: The war in Ukraine is best called the Russian-NATO Ukrainian war. It is a war over whether or not NATO will be allowed to expand to Ukraine and elsewhere along Russia's borders, but mostly…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). Nuclear Ukraine: Amid 'Concerns'Over Alleged Russian Threat, the World Overlooks the Real Danger. libya360.wordpress.com Olga Sukharevskaya Last year, Western media and high-ranking politicians actively discussed the possibility of Russian troops using atomic weapons in Ukraine. There has even been speculation on the likelihood of a nuclear war breaking out. However, it could be said that the risk is probably a lot higher on the other side of the barricades….

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). The Birth of International Fascism via CIA Cutouts. libya360.wordpress.com Cynthia Chung I was invited onto the Convo Couch recently to talk with Fiorella Isabel and Craig Pasta Jardula about my newly released book, you can check out our conversation below. For more on my book "The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set: The Birth of International Fascism and Anglo-American Foreign Policy" see…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). The U.S. Prison Industrial Complex, A Domestic Military Operation: Over-Policing, Mass-Incarceration, Slavery, and Capitalism. libya360.wordpress.com Karl Fluri Although the United States has branded itself as the bastion of freedom both at home and abroad, it is abundantly clear to any objective observer that, just as U.S. imperialism undermines those claims on a global scale, the fascist police state and "prison industrial complex" that exists in the nation today do the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). Western Escalation in Ukraine: Sending in Armor — But is it Too Little Too Late? libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 6, 2023: — After over a week, the Western media continues talking about Ukraine's HIMARS strike on assembled Russian troops; — The focus on political optics inadvertently reveals the lack of strategic and tactical importance of this strike and highlights the lopsided nature of fighting against…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-06). Why BRI is Back with a Bang in 2023. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar As Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South. The year 2022 ended with a Zoom call to end all Zoom calls: Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussing all aspects of the Russia-China strategic partnership in an exclusive video…

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-06). Epochal shift: 1,000 German soldiers ask not to be sent to war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Deutsche WelleJanuary 6, 2023 Spike in German troop numbers asking not to be sent to war It's fewer than 1,000 troops, but nevertheless, the number of German Bundeswehr soldiers who asked to be exempted from serving in war zones rose markedly in 2022. This option dates back to the era of national service. Almost 1,000 …

scorinoco (2023-01-06). Venezuela's National Assembly Elects Board of Directors for 2023-2024 Term. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, January 5, the National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela, in its first plenary session of the year, ratified Deputy Jorge Rodríguez as the president of the National Assembly for the 2023-2024 parliamentary term. | Deputy Pedro Infante was elected as the first vice president, and Deputy América Pérez as the second vice president, both from the ruling coalition, Bloque de la Patria. | Bloque de la Patria's nominations of Rosalba Gil as the secretary and María Alejandra Hernández as the deputy secretary of the AN for the 2023-2024 term were also passed with a clear majority. | The inauguration of the presiden…

Staff (2023-01-06). 28 January: Public Launch of the International Peoples' Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Economic Coercive Measures. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is excited to be a co-sponsor of this important project. After two years of dedicated organizing, we are excited to officially announce the launch of the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures. This project is a first ever international effort to build systems of accountability—rooted …

teleSUR (2023-01-06). Firefighters Fight Forest Fires in Uruguay. telesurenglish.net The National Fire Department of Uruguay reported Friday that the forest fire near the town of Algorta, in the Rio Negro department, in the center-west of the country, was declared extinguished. | RELATED: | "The fire is declared extinguished, after having maintained the situation, of non-existence of smoke columns and/or hot spots, after the passage of more than eight hours a day," said the agency in…

teleSUR (2023-01-06). Operation To Capture El Chapo's Son Leaves 29 Dead in Mexico. telesurenglish.net At least 29 people were killed in clashes sparked by an operation to capture a son of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in northwest Mexico's Sinaloa state, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval confirmed Friday. | RELATED: | The capture of Ovidio Guzman on Thursday left 19 assailants and 10 military troops dead and 35 others wounded, Sandoval said at a press conference. | Army and National Gu…

teleSUR (2023-01-06). Peru Dismisses Its Ambassador to Bolivia. telesurenglish.net The Peruvian Government announced on Friday the decision to dismiss its ambassador in La Paz, Carina Palacio, in the context of the controversy over the alleged interference of former Bolivian president Evo Morales in the country's internal affairs. | RELATED: | The Government's resolution reads: "It is resolved to terminate the functions as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Peru to the Plurinational State…

teleSUR (2023-01-06). Venezuela: President Maduro Appoints Tellechea as PDVSA Leader. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro appointed Pedro Tellechea as the new president of the state-owned Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA). | RELATED: | "With his great experience as the head of Petrochemical of Venezuela (PEQUIVEN), Tellechea will boost the national oil industry. All our recognition to former PDVSA President Asdrubal Chavez, who will soon have new responsibilities," Maduro tweeted. | In Se…

teleSUR (2023-01-06). World's Largest Floating Book Fair Visits Egypt. telesurenglish.net With a crew of nearly 3 volunteers of more than 60 nationalities, Logos Hope ship is currently docked at Port Said, in northeastern Egypt, holding the world's largest floating book fair as part of its humanitarian mission to spread knowledge and foster cultural exchange. | RELATED: | It is the first destination for Logos Hope in 2023, but not the first time for the ship to visit this African country, for the floating…

WSWS (2023-01-06). Britain's rail unions RMT and ASLEF will not fight anti-strike laws. wsws.org The new anti-strike laws were first conceived as a response to the national rail strikes. Their two main leaders, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union's Mick Lynch and train drivers' union ASLEF's Mick Whelan, have made clear they will abide by the legislation.

WSWS (2023-01-06). Starmer pledges austerity alliance between future UK Labour government, big business and unions. wsws.org Declaring Labour was the party of national unity, he began, "I believe in our country, I believe in our businesses."

WSWS (2023-01-06). Sri Lankan Health Workers' Action Committee initiates fight against "paying wards" in government hospitals. wsws.org The HWAC is calling on health employees to fight for the mobilisation of workers to defeat the government's paying ward plan, which is aimed at wiping out Sri Lanka's public health system, a fundamental gain won by the working class.

The Lancet (2023-01-07). [Editorial] The Lancet at 200: a start, but more to do. thelancet.com Thomas Wakley, a 27-year-old apothecary, surgeon, and sometime boxer, founded The Lancet in 1823. Wakley's intention was to publish reports of metropolitan hospital lectures, at the time a highly profitable activity for a small coterie of powerful physicians and surgeons in London. In addition to dismantling this private monopoly over medical knowledge, Wakley also hoped to provide "a correct description" of important clinical cases—"a complete Chronicle of the current Literature". His audience was national (city and country doctors) and global ("Colonial Practitioners"—a group for whom we must make o…

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-06). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

Censored News (2023-01-06). Live Reno: Paiute and Shoshone Rally to Halt Lithium Mine at Thacker Pass as Court Begins. indybay.org The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and other opponents of the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine marched to the Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse on Thursday morning and are now rallying outside. | Inside the building, a federal judge is now scheduled to hear arguments from attorneys representing tribes, environmental groups, and a local rancher who have all sued to halt the mine, as well as from Lithium Nevada—the company behind the mine— and the Bureau of Land Management, which permitted the project.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-06). Daily Round-up | Thousands of Palestinians under threat of displacement in West Bank village & more. peoplesdispatch.org In this episode, we look at stories of evictions in Palestine and India, a report on casualties in the Yemen war, and the conviction of a leader of the Bolivian coup…

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-06). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

Shriya Singh (2023-01-06). Wickremesinghe's new year gift to Sri Lanka: more austerity measures. peoplesdispatch.org As the government attempts to obtain a bailout from the IMF, it has imposed a series of austerity measures which have been widely condemned by trade unions and civil society…

Vijay Prashad (2023-01-06). Socialism is not a Utopian ideal, but an achievable necessity: The First Newsletter (2023). mronline.org In May 2021, the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, wrote an article urging governments to cut excessive military spending in favour of increasing spending on social and economic development.

Ryan Black (2023-01-06). The Decline & Fall Of Nuclear Disarmament In 2022. progressivehub.net THALIF DEEN | INDEPTHNEWS…

Editor (2023-01-06). Putin Orders Unilateral Ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas, Ukraine Rejects It. scheerpost.com

Margaret Kimberley (2023-01-06). White Lives Matter more in Ukraine. mronline.org The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state.

Editor (2023-01-06). Declassified intelligence files expose inconvenient truths of Bosnian war. mronline.org A trove of intelligence files sent by Canadian peacekeepers expose CIA black ops, illegal weapon shipments, imported jihadist fighters, potential false flags, and stage-managed atrocities.

Editor (2023-01-06). Yoon Administration takes Jeju Massacre out of history textbooks. mronline.org Ministry of Education justified the move as "exploring the foundation of the Republic of Korea based on liberal democracy."

Editor (2023-01-06). Dr. Warren Hern: Humans Are a Metastasizing Cancer Terminating Life on the Planet. scheerpost.com Physician and anthropology scholar Dr. Warren Hern delves into some of the most upsetting aspects of human behavior as a fatal threat to all life on earth in the near future.

Editor (2023-01-06). The Chris Hedges Report: Mickey Huff & Nolan Higden on the Disappearance of Democratic Debate and Dialogue in America. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges Democratic debate and dialogue have all but vanished in the United States. There is widespread censorship imposed by social media platforms, private corporations about which we know nothing, while they know everything about us. Mainstream news outlets champion censorship and deplatforming in the name of democracy. Brian Seltzer, for example, on CNN …

Editor (2023-01-06). The NFL: America's Billion Dollar Blood Sport. scheerpost.com By Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch American football has always been a blood sport. It needs to change or die. Tackle must end. Flags must come. And they will. Why? Because human lives are at stake…and with them, a trillion-dollar industry. A century ago, football players were maimed and died in droves. The college game was a cross between …

Editor (2023-01-06). Two Major Pharmacies Say They Plan to Offer Medication Abortions. Here's What That Could Mean. scheerpost.com The federal government will let retail pharmacies provide mifepristone, which helps end pregnancies, to patients with a prescription. But it's not clear how widespread the impact will be.

John Catalinotto (2023-01-06). 2022: Year of the working class in the USA. workers.org This article was published Jan. 1, 2023, on the sites of La Pluma and Tlaxcala. The working class in the United States burst into action in 2022. Warehouse workers at Amazon, baristas at Starbucks, prisoners, coal miners, nurses, teachers, graduate students and more organized and resisted capital. Many went on . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2023-01-06). Incarcerated lives endangered in freezing conditions. workers.org In analyzing the heroic 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Sam Marcy, the late chairperson of Workers World Party, wrote in the pamphlet: "A Marxist Defense of the L.A. Rebellion" that "Marxism differs from all forms of bourgeois sociology in this most fundamental way: All bourgeois social sciences are directed at covering . . . |

Ryan Black (2023-01-06). Hundreds Of Palestinians In Masafer Yatta Face Forced Displacement By Israel. progressivehub.net PEOPLES DISPATCH…

SP Editor (2023-01-06). The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They're Not the Ones You Think!). scheerpost.com

SP Editor (2023-01-06). Was 2022 the Year the World Turned a Corner on Climate Change? scheerpost.com By Mitchell Beer | The Energy Mix After nearly half a century of delaying the shift off fossil fuels, and "with the climate crisis breaching our front door," 2022 may have been the moment when humanity finally turned a corner on emission reductions, says U.S. climate analyst Dr. Leah Stokes. Despite a year of severe …

Stephanie Hedgecoke (2023-01-06). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike vs. Block Communications continues. workers.org Member, Typographical Local CWA 14156 Striking Post-Gazette newspaper workers join Pittsburgh Starbucks Workers United and other unions Dec. 9 outside the Market Square Starbucks. Credit: Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh. Communications Workers Locals 14827 and 14842, Typographers and Mailers union members, walked out on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Oct. . . . |

_____ (2023-01-06). If You Wouldn't Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don't Ask "The International Community" popularresistance.org As someone who spends a lot of time studying African conflict, I often witness and find myself drawn into discussion with groups demanding that "the international community" do something to stop genocide and mass atrocities in their country. Of course I sympathize with any community under attack because of their racial, ethnic, clan, national, class, or political identity, but why would anyone in Africa or elsewhere in the Global South expect "the international community"—meaning the US-dominated West—to stop genocide and mass atrocities? The US dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan even though the Allies h…

_____ (2023-01-06). Brazil: Defenders Return Embassy to Venezuelan Authorities. popularresistance.org This Monday, January 2, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, deputy Jorge Rodríguez, received the keys to the headquarters of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Brazil from the hands of local social movements that, for more than three years, had protected the residence from attempts of aggression, siege, and attacks by fascism. Rodríguez, accompanied by the new Venezuelan ambassador to Brazil, Manuel Vicente Vadell, as well as the staff that works at the diplomatic headquarters, received the keys to the residence from Joà£o Pedro Stedile, Brazilian social leader.

ecns.cn (2023-01-06). Experts slam curbs on travelers from China. ecns.cn Health experts and international organizations have criticized the requirement by some countries for travelers from China to have a negative COVID-19 test as a condition for entry, saying it will not help prevent the spread of the virus.

ecns.cn (2023-01-06). First China-developed ECMO approved for COVID patients. ecns.cn China's first domestically produced ECMO, the extracorporal life support product known as "artificial lung," has been approved for emergency use, according to the National Medical Product Administration on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-06). CPC International Department outlines China's optimization of COVID-19 response. ecns.cn The International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee recently sent letters to foreign political parties and organizations, explaining the adjustment to China's COVID-19 response policy and its significance to strengthening exchanges and cooperation between countries.

Anonymous669 (2023-01-06). Turkish Intelligence "Neutralized" PKK-Affiliated Communist Leader In Syria's Al-Hasakah. southfront.org Zeki Gurbuz, aka Ahmet Sores. Source: the Anadolu Agency. | The Turkish intelligence has "neutralized" a senior leader of the Marxist—Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Syria's northern region, the Anadolu Agency reported on January 6. | Security sources told the state-run news agency that the communist leader, Zeki Gurbuz, was targeted in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in the countryside of al-Hasakah. | The term "neutralized" is usual…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-01-06). What to Expect from the Government in 2023? More of the Same. dissidentvoice.org For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we're going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government's brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality. Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for a national digital ID system. Local police …

news.un (2023-01-06). Flexible work arrangements, a benefit to all — ILO report. news.un.org Flexible working hours can advance economies and businesses while helping employees and families achieve a better work-life balance, according to a new report launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-06). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-06). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-06). Is the extreme cold bad for your lungs? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The winter storm blowing across much of the country is holding up holiday travel plans as the snow falls and temperatures drop into the below zero digits. The National Weather Service says many parts of the the U.S are affected by the extreme cold. Can freezing temperatures freeze your lungs? "Our body does its best to keep our core temperature about 37 degrees, and our lungs are encased within our thoracic cavity. Unless your whole body is…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-06). Turkish court suspends public funding to left-wing HDP, the third-largest party in parliament. peoplesdispatch.org The move is being seen as part of the larger political persecution unleashed by Erdoƒüan's government, which is likely to face a stiff challenge in the upcoming national elections…

unitedEditor (2023-01-06). "United Nations must bless Turkish-Syrian meetings" uwidata.com By Nahed al Huseini reporting from Damascus / Syria The year 2023 began with an important diplomatic turn. After 11 years of interrupted diplomatic relations, defense ministers of Tàºrkiye and Syria came together in a trilateral meeting in Moscow. Speaking to United World International, Syrian Member of Parliament, Dr. Nabil Toumeh said if conducted with …

unitedEditor (2023-01-06). First official steps after 11 years between Syria and Tàºrkiye; Assassination of a nationalist politician; New Year messages from politicians. uwidata.com At the turn of the New Year, Tàºrkiye's agenda remains intense. Turkish and Syrian officials met in Moscow to overcome the ongoing political dispute between the two countries since the start of the civil war in Syria. The busy agenda in Tàºrkiye continued as we entered the new year. In a central location of the …

WSWS (2023-01-06). Sri Lankan Health Workers' Action Committee initiates fight against "paying wards" in government hospitals. wsws.org The HWAC is calling on health employees to fight for the mobilisation of workers to defeat the government's paying ward plan, which is aimed at wiping out Sri Lanka's public health system, a fundamental gain won by the working class.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-05). Tribals forced to flee after right-wing violence in India's Chhattisgarh State. peoplesdispatch.org

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-01-05). Imperialism and the agrarian crisis. mronline.org THE hegemony of imperialism is invariably associated with an agrarian crisis in countries of the global south; in fact agrarian crisis is just the other side of the ascendancy of imperialism. This is evident from the case of Indian agriculture.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-01-05). Tribunal de India detiene desalojo y demolición de 4.000 viviendas. telesurtv.net Más de .000 personas se enfrentaron a la demolición de sus viviendas, que supuestamente invadían terrenos ferroviarios.

Don Fitz (2023-01-05). Two barrels aim at African People's Socialist Party. mronline.org With new FBI and Department of "Justice" (DOJ) attacks expected in early January, a defense, mobilization and information session attracted hundreds of allies of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP).

Editor (2023-01-05). Marx, the 'Metabolic Rift' and Capitalism's Assault on Nature. mronline.org Marx's theory that capitalism created a "metabolic rift" between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today.

Editor (2023-01-05). The Podcast conglomerate the media won't name. mronline.org Spoiler: It's John Malone's Liberty Media…

Editor (2023-01-05). 101st Airborne Still Deployed in Romania Simulating War With Russia. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-05). 26 Dems in Congress Urge DOJ to Continue Moratorium on Federal Executions. scheerpost.com The lawmakers asserted that "there are serious concerns about arbitrariness in the application of the death penalty, the disparate impact of the death penalty on people of color, and the alarming number of exonerations of individuals previously sentenced to death."

Editor (2023-01-05). More Women Are Being Detained as Jail Populations Near Pre-COVID Levels. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-05). Netanyahu Ushers in the Most Anti-Palestinian Government in Israel's History. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-05). Speaker of the House Faces Political Peril From Member Deaths and Resignations—Especially With a Narrow Majority. scheerpost.com The Congress that ended on Jan. 3, 2023, had 15 vacancies, a rate unmatched since the 19 s. If that rate continues, whoever leads the now-closely divided House will face trouble.

Editor (2023-01-05). US Child Care Deficit Impacts Multiple Sectors of the Country. scheerpost.com With funds from the American Rescue Plan drying up, there are fewer workers in the child care industry, higher tuition for child care providers and fewer Americans participating in the workforce.

JANET (2023-01-05). Buffalo 'bomb cyclone' exposes failure of capitalism. iacenter.org By Ryan Lockwood December 29, 2022 Buffalo, New York Buffalo is reeling from its worst snowstorm in a generation. From Dec. 23-25, Western New York state was ravaged by a "bomb cyclone," which brought hurricane-force winds, subzero wind chills and over 50 inches of snowfall to the region. But Winter Storm Elliot is as much a social disaster as it is a weather one. Abandoned cars block a road following winter storm in Buffalo, New York, Dec. 27. At the time of this writing, at least 40 people in the Buffalo area have died due to the storm, a majority of them people of color. This surpasses the death toll of the in…

JANET (2023-01-05). Family, friends pay respects to Wadiya Jamal. iacenter.org By Betsey Piette January 4, 2023 Wadiya Jamal has spent most of her adult life fighting for her husband's release. The beloved wife of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal died unexpectedly from a heart attack Dec. 27, 11 days after a historic decision by a Philadelphia judge in his case. Family and friends attended services for her Dec. 30 in Philadelphia. Wadiya Jamal during visit with Mumia. Those who knew her best described WaWa, as she liked to be called, as devoted to her family life, for her the cause of joy but also great sorrow. She was separated by prison walls from Mumia since his arrest Dec. 9, 1981. He…

JANET (2023-01-05). International forum honors Filipino revolutionary leader, Ka Joma. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead January 2, 2023 A standing room only forum, "Ka Joma Lives: International Proletarian Revolutionary Leader, Theoretician, Teacher and Poet in the Service of the People," was held in tribute to the Filipino leader, Professor Jose Maria Sison, in Amsterdam Dec. 23. Credit: Nahendra Khadka Ka (Comrade) Joma died on Dec. 16 at age 83 in a hospital in the Netherlands, where he was forced into exile in 1988 by the reactionary Philippine government. Sison was imprisoned in the Philippines in 1977 for nine years but was released following the ouster of the U.S.-backed dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. The U…

Judy Greenspan (2023-01-05). Alta Bates Summit nurses boldly strike for pensions and a contract. workers.org Berkeley, California Nurses at the three sites of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in Oakland and Berkeley went on a 10-day strike from Dec. 24 until the early morning of Jan. 2. They took this action after 97% of them voted to reject their bosses' last-minute contract offer. . . . |

Kathy Lu (2023-01-05). The Progressive Left is maintaining systemic racism in New York City. mronline.org Workers in the United States once united across trade and background to fight for the 8-hour workday. Today, many lament how weak the labor movement has become, often pointing to attacks from the right to strip unions and workers of power.

Owen Schalk (2023-01-05). "If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline" mronline.org Jonathan Crary's new book excoriates the digital world of late capitalism.

Ryan Black (2023-01-05). California Police More Than Twice As Likely To Use Force Against Black People. progressivehub.net SAM LEVIN | THE GUARDIAN…

Ryan Black (2023-01-05). Death Penalty Was 'Visibly Problematic' 35 Percent Of The Time In 2022. progressivehub.net MARISA SARNOFF | LAW & CRIME…

SAM (2023-01-05). Biden to Democrats: Nominate Me, Whether You Like It or Not. progressivehub.net NORMAN SOLOMON…

SAM (2023-01-05). U.S. And Cuba Relations Can Improve, But Biden Must Act Soon. progressivehub.net WILLIAM LEOGRANDE | RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT…

Zoe Alexandra (2023-01-05). 'They shot them down like animals': Massacre at Peru's Ayacucho. greenleft.org.au While helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru's national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho on December 15, reports Zoe Alexandra.

_____ (2023-01-05). State Power and Covid Crimes. strategic-culture.org By Ramesh THAKUR | The three major controversies over pandemic management for the past three years have been lockdown measures, universal masking recommendations and mandates, and Covid vaccines. | The last was a pharmaceutical intervention using revolutionary new technology. The first two were radical departures from the existing scientific and policy consensus as encapsulated in official documents from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and in several national pandemic preparedness plans. They established the willingness of the state to dictate every aspect of people's lives, down to the most ridiculous and ab…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-05). Morocco And Israel, The Unholy Alliance That Threatens Peace In North Africa. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Piero Messina | We don't need the crystal ball to bet on the next crisis in North Africa. The growing tension between Morocco and Algeria will add to the Libyan chaos and the institutional collapse of Tunisia. With a third wheel: Israel. Tel Aviv has become a strategic partner of Rabat and for Algeria this situation is becoming a factor of national security. | Since the summer of 2021, Algeria has unilaterally severed diplomatic relations with Morocco, accusing the Moroccan kingdom of "

ecns.cn (2023-01-05). Nation to continue monitoring viral mutations of COVID-19. ecns.cn China will continue to monitor the mutation, transmissibility and virulence of the COVID-19 virus to optimize future epidemic prevention and control measures, according to a document released by the National Health Commission.

ecns.cn (2023-01-05). Chinese president appoints new ambassadors. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping has removed and appointed the following ambassadors in accordance with a decision by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, according to a statement from China's top legislature on Thursday.

Human Rights Watch (2023-01-05). Sudan Military-Civilian Pact Omits Key Justice Reforms, including an End to Impunity (HRW). juancole.com Human Rights Watch (Nairobi) Sudan's political actors and international partners should ensure that progress on human rights and accountability for serious human rights violations are central to any new transition, Human Rights Watch said today. This includes an end to the violent crackdown against peaceful protesters, releasing arbitrarily detained protesters, and taking concrete …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). "African Labor in the World Community": CLR James' Political Economy. libya360.wordpress.com Matthew Quest On CLR James' 122nd Anniversary, Matthew Quest celebrates his intervention in global freedom movements by placing his radical political economy in conversation with the African world and the African continent. He argues that CLR James offers a different and better understanding of capital, the state, and the role of the working class than…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). Peru: General Strike Enters Second Day. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Protests and strikes against Peru's coup regime have entered their second consecutive day. Authorities report that highways are blocked by protesters in at least 37 different spots, up from 25 last night. Peruvians are demanding the release of former President Pedro Castillo, early elections, and the closure of Congress. Today, Peru held a general strike…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). Targeting China, the U.S. Brings its New Cold War to Africa. libya360.wordpress.com VIJAY PRASHAD President Joe Biden and other leaders at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Dec. 15, 2022. | Andrew Harnik / AP The United States government held the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington's…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). 'They Shot Them Down Like Animals': Massacre in Peru's Ayacucho. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra Women from the Ayacucho-based National Association of Relatives of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru (ANFASEP) hold signs in the central plaza of Ayacucho condemning the deaths of protesters. Photo: Zoe Alexandra Survivors and family members of victims of the massacre in Ayacucho on December 15 denounce that the army treated protesters like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). Ukraine's Glorification of Stepan Bandera Draws Criticism Even from Key Ally. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch A collage of a photo of a right-wing rally in honor of Stepan Bandera and the tweet from the Ukrainian parliament on January 1, 2023. (Photo: via Labor Heartlands) Since 2014,…

news.un (2023-01-05). UN working to reduce tensions following Israel minister's holy site visit. news.un.org The United Nations remains ready to support efforts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East exacerbated this week by the visit of Israel's new National Security Minister to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, the Security Council heard during an emergency session on Thursday.

news.un (2023-01-05). Pakistan floods: 9 million more risk being pushed into poverty, warns UNDP. news.un.org An additional nine million people risk being pushed into poverty on top of the 33 million affected by last summer's devastating floods in Pakistan, the UN development agency, UNDP said on Thursday, ahead of next week's International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-05). Lula da Silva begins third term as Brazil's president. peoplesdispatch.org On January 1, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's new president. This will be his third term in office. Around 300,000 people attended his swearing in ceremony in Brasilia along with 120 international delegations. On his first day itself, Lula signed pro-people decrees and provisional measures.

unitedEditor (2023-01-05). Tension points and geopolitical territories in the sights of imperial warmongering. uwidata.com By Micaela Constantini * Faced with the scenery of international conflict and geopolitical transition, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with their watchdog NATO, are trying to maintain their hegemony in key geopolitical territories such as the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Western Balkans and the South Atlantic. This year the world went through …

WSWS (2023-01-05). Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin in critical condition after heart stops mid-game. wsws.org Damar Hamil remains in critical condition after nearly dying during the nationally televised Monday Night Football game.

WSWS (2023-01-05). Seven months after workplace death, injuries continue apace at Canada's National Steel Car. wsws.org Accidents have continued apace following the death of Quoc Le, despite the frequent presence of Ontario Ministry of Labour officials on the premises.

WSWS (2023-01-05). Hundreds attend funeral of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Sarath Kumara. wsws.org Sarath joined the Revolutionary Communist League, forerunner of the SEP, in 1991 and remained a courageous and dedicated working-class fighter for Trotskyism until his death aged 57.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-01-05). Tribunal de India detiene desalojo y demolición de 4.000 viviendas. telesurtv.net Más de .000 personas se enfrentaron a la demolición de sus viviendas, que supuestamente invadían terrenos ferroviarios.

Betsey Piette (2023-01-05). Family, friends pay respects to Wadiya Jamal. workers.org Wadiya Jamal has spent most of her adult life fighting for her husband's release. The beloved wife of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal died unexpectedly from a heart attack Dec. 27, 11 days after a historic decision by a Philadelphia judge in his case. Family and friends attended services for her . . . |

Editor (2023-01-05). 26 Dems in Congress Urge DOJ to Continue Moratorium on Federal Executions. scheerpost.com The lawmakers asserted that "there are serious concerns about arbitrariness in the application of the death penalty, the disparate impact of the death penalty on people of color, and the alarming number of exonerations of individuals previously sentenced to death."

Editor (2023-01-05). Speaker of the House Faces Political Peril From Member Deaths and Resignations—Especially With a Narrow Majority. scheerpost.com The Congress that ended on Jan. 3, 2023, had 15 vacancies, a rate unmatched since the 19 s. If that rate continues, whoever leads the now-closely divided House will face trouble.

Editor (2023-01-05). US Child Care Deficit Impacts Multiple Sectors of the Country. scheerpost.com With funds from the American Rescue Plan drying up, there are fewer workers in the child care industry, higher tuition for child care providers and fewer Americans participating in the workforce.

Judy Greenspan (2023-01-05). Alta Bates Summit nurses boldly strike for pensions and a contract. workers.org Berkeley, California Nurses at the three sites of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in Oakland and Berkeley went on a 10-day strike from Dec. 24 until the early morning of Jan. 2. They took this action after 97% of them voted to reject their bosses' last-minute contract offer. . . . |

ecns.cn (2023-01-05). Chinese president appoints new ambassadors. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping has removed and appointed the following ambassadors in accordance with a decision by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, according to a statement from China's top legislature on Thursday.

Human Rights Watch (2023-01-05). Sudan Military-Civilian Pact Omits Key Justice Reforms, including an End to Impunity (HRW). juancole.com Human Rights Watch (Nairobi) Sudan's political actors and international partners should ensure that progress on human rights and accountability for serious human rights violations are central to any new transition, Human Rights Watch said today. This includes an end to the violent crackdown against peaceful protesters, releasing arbitrarily detained protesters, and taking concrete …

WSWS (2023-01-05). Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin in critical condition after heart stops mid-game. wsws.org Damar Hamil remains in critical condition after nearly dying during the nationally televised Monday Night Football game.

WSWS (2023-01-05). Seven months after workplace death, injuries continue apace at Canada's National Steel Car. wsws.org Accidents have continued apace following the death of Quoc Le, despite the frequent presence of Ontario Ministry of Labour officials on the premises.

ecns.cn (2023-01-05). Nation to continue monitoring viral mutations of COVID-19. ecns.cn China will continue to monitor the mutation, transmissibility and virulence of the COVID-19 virus to optimize future epidemic prevention and control measures, according to a document released by the National Health Commission.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). 'They Shot Them Down Like Animals': Massacre in Peru's Ayacucho. libya360.wordpress.com Zoe Alexandra Women from the Ayacucho-based National Association of Relatives of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru (ANFASEP) hold signs in the central plaza of Ayacucho condemning the deaths of protesters. Photo: Zoe Alexandra Survivors and family members of victims of the massacre in Ayacucho on December 15 denounce that the army treated protesters like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-05). Ukraine's Glorification of Stepan Bandera Draws Criticism Even from Key Ally. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch A collage of a photo of a right-wing rally in honor of Stepan Bandera and the tweet from the Ukrainian parliament on January 1, 2023. (Photo: via Labor Heartlands) Since 2014,…

Staff (2023-01-05). Brazil: Defenders Return Embassy to Venezuelan Authorities. orinocotribune.com This Monday, January 2, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, deputy Jorge Rodríguez, received the keys to the headquarters of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Brazil from the hands of local social movements that, for more than three years, had protected the residence from attempts of aggression, siege, and attacks by fascism. Rodríguez, accompanied by the new Venezuelan ambassador to Brazil, Manuel Vicente Vadell, as well as the staff that works at the diplomatic headquarters, received the keys to the residence from Joà£o Pedro Stedile, Brazilian social leader. | In 201…

WSWS (2023-01-05). Hundreds attend funeral of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Sarath Kumara. wsws.org Sarath joined the Revolutionary Communist League, forerunner of the SEP, in 1991 and remained a courageous and dedicated working-class fighter for Trotskyism until his death aged 57.

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-04). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-01-04). Registran 134 nuevos casos de Covid-19 en India. telesurtv.net En la jornada no se reportó ningún fallecido, con lo que India se mantiene con un acumulado de 530.707 muertes a causa de la Covid-19.

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-04). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

Newsclick (2023-01-04). India's job famine | with Aunindyo Chakravarty. peoplesdispatch.org 86% of new jobseekers in the past five years couldn't get a job. 45% of young jobseekers, between 20-24 years of age are unemployed. Nearly 25% of India's graduates, who are actively looking for work, are jobless. That is how India's economic policies have failed its people.

Editor (2023-01-04). Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma. mronline.org Rushikesh, a resident of Aurangabad, got selected for the prestigious Period Fellowship in 2021, and worked for fifteen months in a predominantly tribal district in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.

Editor (2023-01-04). The Hope of a Pan-African-Owned and Controlled Electric Car Project is Buried for Generations to Come. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington's approach in the summit was guided by its broader New Cold War agenda, in …

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-01-04). BlackRock logo to be added to Ukrainian flag. mronline.org Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world's largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald's upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag.

Editor (2023-01-04). On the influence of neo-Nazism in Ukraine. mronline.org A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard's charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.

Editor (2023-01-04). Shelley's revolutionary poetry. mronline.org Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets—and arguably the greatest.

Editor (2023-01-04). Could Julian Assange Be Released in Two Months? scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter As the new year began, ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons stated during a broadcast segment that he expected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be released "within the next two months or so." "I know [Australia Prime Minister] Anthony Albanese. He's working strongly behind the scenes," Lyons added. "He …

Editor (2023-01-04). Inside Southwest's Horrific Holidays. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-04). The Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-04). Patrick Lawrence: The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn't Read About. scheerpost.com

Rick Rozoff (2023-01-04). Africa's Atlantic Coast: U.S. shores up military presence on NATO island. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa/U.S. Sixth FleetJanuary 3, 2023 USCGC Spencer arrives in Praia, Cabo Verde The Famous-class medium endurance USCGC Spencer arrived in Praia, Cabo Verde for a scheduled port visit, Jan. 2, 2023. This port visit marks the first stop for Spencer, while employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet in the U.S. Naval …

SP Editor (2023-01-04). Will the International Court of Justice Finally Condemn Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine? scheerpost.com By Juan Cole | Informed Comment Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled "Israeli Practices that affect the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." It depended on Chapter XIV, Article 96 of the U.N. Charter, which specifies that "The General Assembly or …

SAM (2023-01-04). Israel's New Government Learned From The U.S. Far Right. progressivehub.net SHIRI EISNER | +972 MAGAZINE…

SAM (2023-01-04). The Media Should Stop Handling Democrats With Kid Gloves. progressivehub.net DAVID SIROTA | THE LEVER…

The Associated Press (2023-01-04). Pelé Buried in Brazilian City He Made Famous. latinorebels.com Brazil said a final farewell to Pelé on Tuesday, burying the legend who unified the bitterly divided country. Newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid his respects at Vila Belmiro, the stadium where Pelé played for most of his career.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). Science Saturday: Researchers investigate precision nutrition to improve health, prevent diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could prescribing specific nutrients, grains, fruits and vegetables tailored to a person's DNA and other biological characteristics help improve their health? Precision nutrition took center stage at Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine Conference Nov. 2—3, 2022, in Rochester, Minnesota, where some of the world's top experts shared their knowledge of the potential benefits of tailoring nutrients and dietary guidance to a person's genes, metabolism, microbiome and other distinguishing characteristics. The ultimate goal of the holistic approach is to…

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-04). NATO Chief Says Some Members Want to Raise Military Spending Levels. news.antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that some alliance members would like to push others to increase military spending by setting a minimum target of 2% of a country's gross domestic product. "Some allies are strongly in favor of turning the 2% goal into a minimum target," Stoltenberg told the German news agency DPA. NATO's …

Dana Sanchez (2023-01-04). US Virgin Islands Prosecutor Who Sued JP Morgan Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties Suddenly Fired By Governor. moguldom.com The top U.S. Virgin Islands prosecutor, Attorney General Denise George, has been fired by her boss, Gov. Albert Bryan, days after she sued the largest bank in the U.S. in connection with her investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The late disgraced financier Epstein owned two private islands — commonly referred to as "Pedophile Island" in the …

Zack Linly (2023-01-04). US Virgin Islands AG Denise George Fired Days After Accusing JPMorgan Chase Of Aiding Jeffrey Epstein. newsone.com U.S. Virgin Islands AG Denise George was fired days after she filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for aiding Jeffrey Epstein. Coincidence?

WSWS (2023-01-04). Germany's president and chancellor beat the drum for Ukraine war and invoke national unity. wsws.org Both President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz advocated continuing the Ukraine war until Russia's complete defeat, even if this entailed enormous social and economic costs and the risk of nuclear war.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). Shenzhen's 1st new int'l route in 3 years jets off. ecns.cn A China Southern Airlines plane took off from Shenzhen International Airport bound for Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday as the airline resumed the overseas route after a long hiatus.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). China's railway cargo delivery up 4.7 pct in 2022. ecns.cn China's railway cargo delivery volume reached 3.9 billion tonnes in 2022, up 4.7 percent year on year, according to the national railway operator.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). International observers: China's economic recovery will lift global growth after COVID response shift. ecns.cn International media and think tanks have kept an eye on China's economy after the country optimized the COVID-19 measures in late 2022. ECNS found many of them remain positive on the country's economic rebound and what it is going to bring to the global economy.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). No traces of bird strikes found on turned back China Express aircraft: Official. ecns.cn A passenger plane landed back in Hangzhou Xiaoshan International airport soon after it took off on Tuesday afternoon in East China's Hangzhou. Passenger footage capturing the sudden event immediately went viral on Chinese social media.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). Masterpieces from Italian museum on display in Shanghai. ecns.cn An exhibition featuring masterpieces from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in Italy has opened to the public in Shanghai.

Eric A. Gordon (2023-01-04). Book review and response: 'People Love Dead Jews'. peoplesworld.org Dara Horn gave People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present an intentionally provocative title, and it worked. Her latest book won the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable Book, Natan …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). Antibiotic shortage – what to know if you can't find amoxicillin. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Food and Drug Administration, a national shortage of different medications, including a common antibiotic, is expected to last several months. "The most notable one is probably amoxicillin. It is a common antibiotic that we use to treat a variety of childhood infections, including ear infections, strep throat, and pneumonia," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says parents may notice this as they take their children to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

WSWS (2023-01-04). What companies are behind the rotten deal for Pampas workers in Australia? wsws.org Pampas is a tiny component of Wilmar International, a vast multinational corporation with more than 0 manufacturing plants and a workforce of around 100,000 people.

_____ (2023-01-04). John Thackara On Designing For Life. popularresistance.org John Thackara is one of the brilliant irregulars exploring how humankind can make the transition to a climate-friendly, relocalized, post-capitalist world. You can't pigeonhole him in any occupational category or disciplinary tradition because he is so effortlessly transversal. He blends his broadly international and nonsectarian perspective with the many particular projects that are Building the New. | This helps explain why Thackara's work is so appealing: It speaks to us as whole human beings where we live, in distinctive local circumstances. While rigorous and empirical, Thackara isn't constrained by the jarg…

Ann Brown (2023-01-04). Fact Check: Coca-Cola Paid NAACP To Make Sure Sugar Taxes Failed And Sodas Could Be Purchased With Food Stamps. moguldom.com There's a tweet that has gone viral by Calley Means, who now owns a company called True Medicine Care, which enables patients to use food stamps to buy healthy food. In the Twitter thread, he accused the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of essentially taking a "bribe" from soda giant Coca-Cola to …

Fight Back (2023-01-04). Peruvian trade union leader speaks about resistance to overthrow of President Castillo. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed Cristiano Mayta, a trade unionist in Peru on January 3 to learn more about the situation in Perú after the overthrow of democratically-elected President Pedro Castillo by an oligarchy-dominated Congress. There is a national strike called for January 4 amid violent repression. | Fight Back!: What is your organization? | Cristiano Mayta: I am the international secretary of the union SINATREL at a Coca-Cola bottling plant. I am also a member of an organization called Socialist Left of Peru (Izquierda Socialista Perú). | Fight Back!: From your perspective, what happened with President Castillo…

WSWS (2023-01-04). Britain's National Health Service faced with deliberate collapse. wsws.org COVID policies backed by all the major parties of allowing tens of thousands of people to die unnecessary deaths and countless more to suffer prolonged ill health—rather than taking measures impacting on profits—were only the sharpest expression of a growing hostility to health spending seen as an intolerable drain on British capitalism, to be reduced as quickly as possible.

Brittani Banks (2023-01-04). 'They Shot Them Down Like Animals': Massacre at Peru's Ayacucho. independentmediainstitute.org On December 15, 2022, while helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru's national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho. This action was in response to a national strike and mobilization to protest the coup d'état that deposed President Pedro Castillo on December 7. On December 15, hundreds …

Anonymous669 (2023-01-04). UAE Foreign Minister Pays Surprise Visit To Syria, Meets Assad. southfront.org Syria's President Assad during the meeting with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed. Source: the Syrian Presidency Office. | On January 4, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan paid a surprise visit to Syria where he met with President Bashar al-Assad. | The minister was accompanied by senior Emirate officials, including Ali bin Hammad Al Shamsi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for National Secur…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-04). Fake News about North Korean Aid to the Wagner PMC as an Illustration of New "Evidence" Trends. libya360.wordpress.com Konstantin Asmolov It would seem that not long ago we touched on the intricate situation regarding rumors of North Korean or South Korean arms being supplied to the region of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, noting that there was no real evidence of either. Unfortunately, the situation is not evolving for the better and even those in the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-04). If You Wouldn't Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don't Ask "the International Community" libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist actions are antithetical to human needs. As someone who spends a lot of time studying African conflict, I often witness and find myself drawn into…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-04). Latin America: Between Hope and Danger. libya360.wordpress.com Randy Alonso Falcón The multitudinous and emotional inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva in Brazil, on the first day of the year, and the announcement in Colombia of the beginning of a ceasefire with five armed organizations in that country are the news that illuminate the beginning of the year in Latin America and…

Staff (2023-01-04). Jewish Voice for Peace condemns the Israeli government's latest violent escalation. commondreams.org In its first five days in office, Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right Israeli government is behaving exactly as promised: accelerating its violent attacks on Palestinians and committing grave violations of human rights and international law. Since the new government took office, the Israeli army has killed three Palestinians, including two teenage boys. In the past two …

unitedEditor (2023-01-04). Germany's chance was used by Tàºrkiye. uwidata.com By Dragana Trifkovic, Director and Milos Zdravkovic, expert for energy policy of the Center for Geostrategic Studies, Belgrade, Serbia United World International continues the publishing of presentations made in the webinar "Europe's Energy Crisis and the Prospects of Russian-Turkish Cooperation". Today we present the text of the Center for Geostrategic Studies in Serbia. Title and …

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-04). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-01-04). Registran 134 nuevos casos de Covid-19 en India. telesurtv.net En la jornada no se reportó ningún fallecido, con lo que India se mantiene con un acumulado de 530.707 muertes a causa de la Covid-19.

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-04). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

Editor (2023-01-04). Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma. mronline.org Rushikesh, a resident of Aurangabad, got selected for the prestigious Period Fellowship in 2021, and worked for fifteen months in a predominantly tribal district in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-01-04). BlackRock logo to be added to Ukrainian flag. mronline.org Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world's largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald's upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag.

Editor (2023-01-04). On the influence of neo-Nazism in Ukraine. mronline.org A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard's charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.

Editor (2023-01-04). Shelley's revolutionary poetry. mronline.org Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets—and arguably the greatest.

Editor (2023-01-04). Could Julian Assange Be Released in Two Months? scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter As the new year began, ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons stated during a broadcast segment that he expected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be released "within the next two months or so." "I know [Australia Prime Minister] Anthony Albanese. He's working strongly behind the scenes," Lyons added. "He …

Editor (2023-01-04). Inside Southwest's Horrific Holidays. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-04). The Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-04). The Hope of a Pan-African-Owned and Controlled Electric Car Project is Buried for Generations to Come. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington's approach in the summit was guided by its broader New Cold War agenda, in …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). Science Saturday: Researchers investigate precision nutrition to improve health, prevent diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could prescribing specific nutrients, grains, fruits and vegetables tailored to a person's DNA and other biological characteristics help improve their health? Precision nutrition took center stage at Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine Conference Nov. 2—3, 2022, in Rochester, Minnesota, where some of the world's top experts shared their knowledge of the potential benefits of tailoring nutrients and dietary guidance to a person's genes, metabolism, microbiome and other distinguishing characteristics. The ultimate goal of the holistic approach is to…

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). Shenzhen's 1st new int'l route in 3 years jets off. ecns.cn A China Southern Airlines plane took off from Shenzhen International Airport bound for Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday as the airline resumed the overseas route after a long hiatus.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). China's railway cargo delivery up 4.7 pct in 2022. ecns.cn China's railway cargo delivery volume reached 3.9 billion tonnes in 2022, up 4.7 percent year on year, according to the national railway operator.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). International observers: China's economic recovery will lift global growth after COVID response shift. ecns.cn International media and think tanks have kept an eye on China's economy after the country optimized the COVID-19 measures in late 2022. ECNS found many of them remain positive on the country's economic rebound and what it is going to bring to the global economy.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). No traces of bird strikes found on turned back China Express aircraft: Official. ecns.cn A passenger plane landed back in Hangzhou Xiaoshan International airport soon after it took off on Tuesday afternoon in East China's Hangzhou. Passenger footage capturing the sudden event immediately went viral on Chinese social media.

ecns.cn (2023-01-04). Masterpieces from Italian museum on display in Shanghai. ecns.cn An exhibition featuring masterpieces from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in Italy has opened to the public in Shanghai.

Eric A. Gordon (2023-01-04). Book review and response: 'People Love Dead Jews'. peoplesworld.org Dara Horn gave People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present an intentionally provocative title, and it worked. Her latest book won the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Times Notable Book of 2021, Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable Book, Natan …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). Antibiotic shortage – what to know if you can't find amoxicillin. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Food and Drug Administration, a national shortage of different medications, including a common antibiotic, is expected to last several months. "The most notable one is probably amoxicillin. It is a common antibiotic that we use to treat a variety of childhood infections, including ear infections, strep throat, and pneumonia," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says parents may notice this as they take their children to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-04). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

WSWS (2023-01-04). Germany's president and chancellor beat the drum for Ukraine war and invoke national unity. wsws.org Both President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz advocated continuing the Ukraine war until Russia's complete defeat, even if this entailed enormous social and economic costs and the risk of nuclear war.

WSWS (2023-01-04). What companies are behind the rotten deal for Pampas workers in Australia? wsws.org Pampas is a tiny component of Wilmar International, a vast multinational corporation with more than 0 manufacturing plants and a workforce of around 100,000 people.

_____ (2023-01-03). 2022: India's Workers And Peasants Fight Back — And Fight On. popularresistance.org In India, the year that has just passed started with hope but ended with anger and discontent. Hope, because it was thought that with the pandemic finally dwindling, the economy would revive and so would jobs and incomes. The mainstream media talked of a V-shaped recovery, the government again started talking of a $5 trillion economy (whatever that means). Although there was no reason to do so, working people, desperate after two years of extreme hardship, hoped against hope. The victory of the farmers' movement in forcing the government to back down on the three agricultural laws also boosted the morale —…

WSWS (2023-01-03). Sri Lankan president holds "national reconciliation" conference. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's all party conference is another attempt to enlist the support of the opposition parties amid growing popular anger against his government's vicious austerity program.

Ann Brown (2023-01-03). Cardiac Arrest Of NFL Player Damar Hamlin On National TV Sparks Vaccine Debate. moguldom.com Twenty-four-year-old National Football League player Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, is in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital after collapsing on the field with cardiac arrest during a game against the Bengals on Jan. 2. His medical emergency sparked a debate about the covid 19-vaccine and professional athletes, with some blaming the vaccine for his cardiac …

Chris Walker (2023-01-03). Calls for NFL Reforms Grow After Damar Hamlin Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Game. truthout.org Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old safety in his second season with the Buffalo Bills, is in critical condition after going into cardiac arrest during a Monday night game with the Cincinnati Bengals. After tackling wide receiver Tee Higgins, Hamlin took two steps and collapsed backward. Medical personnel immediately rushed to his side, administering CPR and giving him oxygen as he lay motionless on the… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-03). Conservatives Spread Anti-Vaccine Lies Immediately After Damar Hamlin Collapsed. truthout.org Within just an hour of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's sudden collapse on the football field on Monday night, far right figures seized upon the tragedy to spread anti-vaccine conspiracy theories on social media. During a Monday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals, 24-year-old Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after tackling another player. Medical personnel administered CPR on the field… |

_____ (2023-01-03). The Inglorious End Of Juan Guaidó. popularresistance.org And so it ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. After all, it was made of cardboard. | It is very rare to have a political phenomenon beautifully encapsulated in a single moment or image. But in the case of (former) self-proclaimed "Interim President" Juan Guaidó, we got exactly that. | On November 22, 2021, the Obama knockoff politician was giving a press conference in a fancy-looking set, with plenty of flags and a little podium. As he trudged along his nonsense something magical happened: the presidential shield behind him fell to the floor. It was made of cardboard. | For all the absurdity that preceded…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-03). Governments Approach the Cryptocurrency Regulation. southfront.org SPONSORED: | Ilustrative Image | As cryptocurrencies become increasingly popular as a medium of exchange, a means of storing value, and even as assets unto themselves, governments are scrambling to ensure operational stability. As part of this new drive to protect consumers while ensuring that the proper tax has been paid on transactions, several countries have moved toward regulating cryptocurrencies. On the other hand, crypto users and bitcoin traders who are thinking about getting the most out of their…

Editor (2023-01-03). After Repeated Interest Rate Hikes, IMF Warns a Third of World Will Suffer Recession in 2023. scheerpost.com With the world's three largest economies slowing down, said the IMF managing director, economic conditions will "feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people" this year.

Editor (2023-01-03). Brazil's President Lula is Back—and Bolsonaro Fled to Florida. scheerpost.com Lula da Silva returned as Brazil's president, calling for fighting poverty and hunger, re-industrializing, strengthening the BRICS, and deepening Latin American integration. Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida, fearing legal consequences for his corruption.

Editor (2023-01-03). In Many Child Welfare Cases, Most of Your Constitutional Rights Don't Apply. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-03). Ukraine Prepares To Give Free Rein to Property Developers. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-03). Vivienne Westwood: Activism and the Godmother of Punk. scheerpost.com By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch There was the punk scene, Malcolm McLaren, their racy clothes shop at 430 King's Road that started out as Let it Rock, the creation of a look, and the gathering of the earth rumbling Sex Pistols. In fact, the late Dame Vivienne Westwood was already a proven stirrer, suggesting that …

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-01-03). Haiti: Political Parties Reject 'National Consensus,' a Political Ploy of De Facto PM Ariel Henry. orinocotribune.com Caracas, January 2, 2023 ( The leader of the Movement for Political and Cultural Independence Party (MEKSEPA)…

_____ (2023-01-03). Haiti: Political Parties Reject 'National Consensus'. popularresistance.org On Thursday, December 29, several political parties of Haiti condemned de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry's "National Consensus" that unilaterally promotes constitutional reform and asks for "help from the international community" to combat insecurity in the country. According to the protesting parties, Henry has been trying to illegally remain in power since the assassination of the former president, Jovenel MoàØse, in July 2021. | The leader of the Movement for Political and Cultural Independence Party (MEKSEPA), Vilaire Cluny Duroseau, said that the Consensus is a "macabre" attempt of the Core Group to…

_____ (2023-01-03). Iran Says 94 Americans Accused Of Soleimani's Assassination. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, Mehr news agency reported that a senior Iranian judicial official said 94 U.S. nationals have been charged with involving in the 2020 assassination of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. | Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy chief of the Iranian judiciary and secretary general of the High Council for Human Rights, made the remarks in a televised interview on the third anniversary of Soleimani's assassination. | He said the three main accused are former U.S. President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Commander of U.S. Central Command Kenneth Frank McKenzie, stressing that no one…

_____ (2023-01-03). Mass Rallies Across Region Commemorate Soleimani Assassination. popularresistance.org As Iranians and Iraqis commemorate the three-year anniversary of Washington's illegal assassination of Iran's Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq's Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, scores of people have, over the last few days, rallied in the streets of both countries. | On 3 January, people from all over the Islamic Republic, and particularly in Soleimani's hometown of Qanat-e Malek in Kerman province, gathered to remember the fallen commander. At Tehran's main prayer hall, a national congress to commemorate the assassination was held and attended by several senior officials. The following day, a schola…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-03). Tunisian President Saied Launches Campaign Of Repression Against Opposition. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Piero Messina | "Tunisia needs to be purified, like the blood of dialysis patients." With these bloody words, the President of Tunisia Kais Saied addressed the nation in his end-of-year speech, broadcasted by the national television channel. Saied's speech was welcomed by the opposition and trade unions as a real threat. After suspending constitutional guarantees in July 2021, after ousting the government, after dissolving parliament and calling new elections which ended in a memorable f…

Anonymous (2023-01-03). Palestine in Pictures: December 2022. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). Marked bump in rail passenger trips expected this year. ecns.cn The national railway network plans to make a significantly higher number of passenger trips and haul more freight this year, promoting the sector's high-quality development and contributing to the country's resurgence from the COVID-19 epidemic.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). Cooperation key to better IP protection. ecns.cn China has stepped up efforts in increasing international cooperation on intellectual property protection to improve its competitiveness over the past few years, with rapid growth of patent applications overseas.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). China rail-sea intermodal trains transported more cargo in 2022. ecns.cn The rail-sea intermodal freight trains running along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor transported a total of 756,000 TEUs of containers, up 18.5 percent year on year.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). China candidly shares COVID-19 control measures: Health Commission. ecns.cn China stresses its open and transparent attitude on sharing COVID-19 related information and vows to keep doing so, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday at a press conference.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). Stunning view of Taiping National Forest Park after heavy snowfall. ecns.cn Taiping National Forest Park turns a white wonderland after a heavy snowfall in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 1, 2023.

Fight Back (2023-01-03). This New Year is a critical moment in the history of our movement. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – This is the first day of 2023, after a year that has tested our movement like nothing in the last half century. We have a tradition to ring in the New Year with a review of what we accomplished in 2022. | I'm primarily speaking of the work of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression and its Chicago branch, but also acknowledging where the struggle for Black liberation is at in our country at this moment. | The greatest challenge is overcoming the hundreds of years of national oppression imposed upon us by this government, the primary characteristic of which is economic oppres…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). British-Run Spy Tech Powers Ukraine Proxy War, Putting Civilians at Risk. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Leaked files reveal the Anomaly 6 spy firm is providing intelligence to the British military through a cut-out involved in the Kerch Bridge bombing and other acts of dangerous sabotage in the Ukraine conflict. On December 6th, The Grayzone revealed how British military and intelligence agencies were deploying technology created by shadowy private intelligence firm Anomaly…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). Moscow and Beijing Could End US Sanctions Hegemony. libya360.wordpress.com Observateur Continental Sanctions have long been the U.S.'s favorite economic weapon, but the era of U.S. hegemony is coming to an end. Washington's permissive use of punitive measures has provoked resistance from the world. Russia and China have won at least one victory in the fight against sanctions. Sanctions have long been America's favorite economic…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). NATO Will Confront Russia in West Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Nikolai Plotnikov and Alexei Romanov Mauritania aims at becoming renewable energy powerhouse Why Mauritania is becoming an outpost of the alliance in the region Western countries' peacekeeping missions in Mali seem to be failing. Following France and Britain, Germany began to think about withdrawing its troops from the African country. The justification is standard: the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). Qassem Soleimani in Venezuela: The Lesser Known Motive Behind His Assassination. libya360.wordpress.com Hasan Illaik Why was Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani assassinated by the US? His visit to Venezuela in 2019 may provide some answers. On 3 January 2020, the US military assassinated Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds Force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with his companion, the deputy head…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). Struggle for Liberation of Western Sahara Intensifies. libya360.wordpress.com Pavan Kulkarni Photo: Saharawi Voice Fighting between the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army and Moroccan occupying forces has intensified in recent days Moroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have come under repeated bombardment by the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Moroccan forces currently occupy over 80% of SADR, also known as Western Sahara, which…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). "To Be an Enemy of America is Dangerous. To Be a Friend of America is Fatal." libya360.wordpress.com Amar Djerrad Merkel's Confession or the Pebble in NATO's Boot The unexpected statement of the former German chancellor Angela Merkel is only a confirmation of what has always been the case with the Atlanticists! She has simply acknowledged, as an ex-chancellor and official, the hypocritical attitude and turpitudes of the West towards the rest of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). Under the US Watch, Japan Sets Sail for Militarization. libya360.wordpress.com Salman Rafi Sheikh On December 16, Japan unveiled its new defence strategy aimed at giving a massive boost to the country's defence and offence capability. This is arguably the largest defence upgrade that Japan has unveiled since the Second World War when it became a 'pacifist' state. As the new documents show, Japan is now…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-03). With an Eye on Iran, Netanyahu Wades into the Ukraine War. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Sochi In his second coming as Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has hit the ground running. The international climate in which he skilfully operated for close to 15 years in two stints as prime minister has changed…

Jake Johnson (2023-01-03). Palestinians Condemn Far Right Israeli Minister's Visit to Islamic Holy Site. truthout.org Palestinians reacted with fury on Tuesday after far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, a move seen as a deliberate provocation by an official with a long history of extremism and racist incitement. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry called Ben-Gvir's "storming" of Al-Aqsa — Islam's third-holiest… |

Juan Cole (2023-01-03). Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled "Israeli Practices that affect the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." It depended on Chapter XIV, Article 96 of the U.N. Charter, which specifies that "The General Assembly or …

Kurt Nimmo (2023-01-03). Oxford Neocon Calls for Disregarding Russia's "Red Lines" globalresearch.ca

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-03). Culture of Hope: 2022 and the Margins of Victory in Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle nationally, regionally and internationally. Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine war starting in February pressured many political entities, including …

unitedEditor (2023-01-03). From Ivan the Terrible to Stalin and today: History of Russia and the use of force and violence (Pt.1). uwidata.com Following Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, a debate lived up again on the role of force and violence in history — especially concerning the history of Russia itself. United Woeld International author has given a lengthy interview to Emrah Mara≈üo, editor-in-chief of Turkish monthly magazine Bilim ve àútopya (Science and Utopia). The interview was …

WSWS (2023-01-03). 2023: The global capitalist crisis and the growing offensive of the international working class. wsws.org In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-03). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-03). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

WSWS (2023-01-03). Sri Lankan president holds "national reconciliation" conference. wsws.org Wickremesinghe's all party conference is another attempt to enlist the support of the opposition parties amid growing popular anger against his government's vicious austerity program.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). Cooperation key to better IP protection. ecns.cn China has stepped up efforts in increasing international cooperation on intellectual property protection to improve its competitiveness over the past few years, with rapid growth of patent applications overseas.

ecns.cn (2023-01-03). China rail-sea intermodal trains transported more cargo in 2022. ecns.cn The rail-sea intermodal freight trains running along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor transported a total of 756,000 TEUs of containers, up 18.5 percent year on year.

Juan Cole (2023-01-03). Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled "Israeli Practices that affect the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." It depended on Chapter XIV, Article 96 of the U.N. Charter, which specifies that "The General Assembly or …

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-03). Culture of Hope: 2022 and the Margins of Victory in Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle nationally, regionally and internationally. Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine war starting in February pressured many political entities, including …

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-01-03). Haiti: Political Parties Reject 'National Consensus,' a Political Ploy of De Facto PM Ariel Henry. orinocotribune.com Caracas, January 2, 2023 ( The leader of the Movement for Political and Cultural Independence Party (MEKSEPA)…

WSWS (2023-01-03). 2023: The global capitalist crisis and the growing offensive of the international working class. wsws.org In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.

_____ (2023-01-02). On another border incident and the 14th Dalai Lama factor in China-India relations. journal-neo.org On December 9 this year, there was an incident between groups of soldiers from both countries at a section of the Sino-Indian border, seemingly insignificant in scale and consequence. This assessment can be used with confidence, at least in relation to the direct participants. This is to the credit of both sides, as it demonstrates …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-02). Toward Justice for Kashmir. transcend.org 18 Dec 2022 – Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India's intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.

Colin Todhunter (2023-01-02). India's GM Mustard: An Increasingly Bitter Taste. globalresearch.ca

Betsey Piette (2023-01-02). Nurses' strikes rock Britain's National Health Service. workers.org Workers across Britain have been engaged in wave after wave of strikes. Since summer, workers in multiple industries have hit back against massive economic and social service attacks. Nurses on a picket line outside Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham, on Dec. 20. Credit: Jacob King/PA. Photo web source: Guardian Consumer inflation . . . |

Editor (2023-01-02). The Chris Hedges Report: A New Book of Migrant Stories Exposes Europe's War on Refugees. scheerpost.com In their book, 'Map of Hope and Sorrow,' co-authors Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan trace the stories of five refugees trapped in Greece's brutal refugee camps.

Editor (2023-01-02). Chris Hedges: 2023 Book TV Interview. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-02). Let 2023 Be the Year of Dismantling Incarceration. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-02). US, Israel Vote No as UN Approves World Court Resolution on Illegal Occupation. scheerpost.com "The time has come for Israel to be a state subject to law," said a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, "and to be held accountable for its ongoing crimes against our people."

Editor (2023-01-02). Western Governments Keep Assigning Themselves the Authority to Regulate Online Speech. scheerpost.com By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack Depending on what political echo chamber you've been viewing it from, the ongoing release of information about the inner workings of pre-Musk Twitter known as "the Twitter Files" might look like the bombshell news story of the century, or it might look like a complete nothingburger whose importance is being …

Monica Moorehead (2023-01-02). International forum honors Filipino revolutionary leader, Ka Joma. workers.org A standing room only forum, "Ka Joma Lives: International Proletarian Revolutionary Leader, Theoretician, Teacher and Poet in the Service of the People," was held in tribute to the Filipino leader, Professor Jose Maria Sison, in Amsterdam Dec. 23. Credit: Nahendra Khadka Ka (Comrade) Joma died on Dec. 16 at age . . . |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). Science Saturday: Researchers investigate precision nutrition to improve health, prevent diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could prescribing specific nutrients, grains, fruits and vegetables tailored to a person's DNA and other biological characteristics help improve their health? Precision nutrition took center stage at Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine Conference Nov. 2—3, 2022, in Rochester, Minnesota, where some of the world's top experts shared their knowledge of the potential benefits of tailoring nutrients and dietary guidance to a person's genes, metabolism, microbiome and other distinguishing characteristics. The ultimate goal of the holistic approach is to…

ecns.cn (2023-01-02). Mainland official calls for joint efforts for national reunification across Taiwan Strait. ecns.cn A senior official on the Chinese mainland has called for joint efforts from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to work toward the goals of national rejuvenation and national reunification.

Staff (2023-01-02). 19 February, Online Event: Introducing the International Center for Palestine Studies (ICPS). samidoun.net Sunday, 19 February See time details below for Arabic and English sessions Register to attend: forms.gle/i1LSGxPPRft65aba7 Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/84829366472 More info: palestinestudiescenter.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/event-introducing-the-icps/ The International Center for Palestine Studies (ICPS) invites all writers, activists and creatives to join us for an introduction of the Center. This webinar is a step toward fulfilling the ICPS's goal of …

Anonymous103 (2023-01-02). Israeli Strike On Damascus Airport Left Two Syrian Servicemen Dead. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | At night, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) carried out another attack in Syria. Israeli missiles targeted Damascus International Airport and its outskirts. | The attack took place at about 2 am local time and was carried out from the direction of Lake Tiberias in Israel. As a result of the strikes, two servicemen of the Syrian Arab Army were killed and two others were wounded. | The damage to the facilities briefly put the airport out of service. The transport ministry said in an online…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). Antibiotic shortage – what to know if you can't find amoxicillin. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Food and Drug Administration, a national shortage of different medications, including a common antibiotic, is expected to last several months. "The most notable one is probably amoxicillin. It is a common antibiotic that we use to treat a variety of childhood infections, including ear infections, strep throat, and pneumonia," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says parents may notice this as they take their children to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

Victor Castellanos (2023-01-02). Venezuela Present at Lula's Inauguration in Brazil. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president, while harshly criticising former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and promising a change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty and racism, all of which were exacerbated during Bolsonaro's rule. | The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, arrived in Brasilia on Sunday afternoon as the official representative of the Venezuelan State. | "On behalf of the President of the republic Nicolás Maduro, we arrived in the city of Brasilia to accompany our Brazilian brothers and sisters in the…

Jon Queally (2023-01-02). Brazil Celebrates Lula's Inauguration and End of Right-Wing Bolsonaro Reign. truthout.org Hundreds of thousands took to the streets across Brazil on Sunday to celebrate the inauguration of leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose return to the nation's highest office also marked the exit of far-right Jair Bolsonaro who left his country and arrived in the U.S. state of Florida ahead of the weekend's transfer of power. After being sworn in during a ceremony at the National… |

_____ (2023-01-02). Eradication Of Poverty And Hunger Key Priorities For Lula Government. popularresistance.org On Sunday January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party of Brazil (PT) gave his first speech to the Brazilian people as president at the National Congress. In the speech, he presented a brief diagnosis of the situation and conditions of the country that he will govern over for the next four years. | "It's appalling," said Lula, about the conditions in which he receives the country from his predecessor, former president Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party, who abandoned the country and went to the US just before the inauguration. "They have emptied out the resources for health. They have dismantled th…

_____ (2023-01-02). US Spreads Misery By Imposing Sanctions On A Third Of Humanity. popularresistance.org On November 14, the Biden administration announced yet another round of sanctions on Russia, targeting this time Russia's military supply chains by imposing sanctions on 14 individuals and 28 entities that it said were part of a transnational network that procured technology to support Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine. | One of the companies blacklisted was Milandr, a Russian microelectronics company that Washington says is part of Moscow's military research and development structure. | The sanctions additionally targeted several aviation-related companies and two individuals—Abbas Djuma and Tigran Khristo…

Dana Drugmand (2023-01-02). 2022 was a big year for climate action in the courtsÔøº. nationofchange.org The past year saw major developments in accountability cases against oil companies and national governments around the world, as well as setbacks for several high-profile fossil fuel projects.

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-02). Israeli Missile Strikes Put Damascus International Airport Out of Service. news.antiwar.com Update: Syrian media reports the Damascus airport came back into service at 9: 00 am Damascus time Israel launched more missile strikes on Syria early Monday, targeting the Damascus International Airport and putting it out of service as Israeli strikes against Syrian airports have become more frequent. According to the Syrian military, the missile strikes killed …

ecns.cn (2023-01-02). Interpretation safeguards HK national security. ecns.cn The interpretation came in response to a request by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu for clarification on whether overseas lawyers who are not qualified to generally practice in the SAR can take part in national security cases.

ecns.cn (2023-01-02). Int'l experts upbeat about China 2023 | Italian professor of international studies: I hope Europe and China can further increase corporation. ecns.cn Fabio Massimo Parenti, a professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence says: "My best wishes to all of you and we hope we can further increase our corporation between Italy and China, between Europe and China for a better world, because we cannot escape this integration if we want to really solve the current problems."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-02). Eurasia's Middle Corridor: An Atlanticist Frenzy to Stifle Europe-Asia Integration. libya360.wordpress.com Matthew Ehret Geopolitical interests between the Anglo-American establishment and the Sino-Russian-led axis will clash over the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. On 12 December 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) hosted a conference on the future of Eurasia's Middle Corridor, a transport and energy infrastructure development project that stretches from the resource-rich Caspian Sea to Europe. At…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-02). New Year Missile & Drone Strikes Continue Across Ukraine as NATO Recognizes Scale of Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 2, 2023: Fighting continues around Bakhmut and across the wider Donbass region; Russian missile and drone strikes continue for several days now; Ukrainian sources claim "all" drones were downed but damage to infrastructure proves otherwise; Ukraine claims to have hit Russian troops…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-02). U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect. The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a 'response to foreign tyranny,' but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On November 14, the Biden…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-02). Deadliest Year for Palestinians in Decades: Israeli Forces Kill 240, including 47 children. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle nationally, regionally and internationally. Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine War starting in …

Robert S. Becker (2023-01-02). Unified by national leaders and results-driven storylines, Democrats show up the obstructionist, do-nothing right. nationofchange.org Dems make the future palatable,/ The right twists it intolerable.

Staff (2023-01-02). "There is no other way than to put an end to the Zionist project:" Interview with Liliana Córdova Kaczerginski. samidoun.net Samidoun is republishing the following interview, originally published in Spanish, with Liliana Córdova Kaczerginski, co-founder of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), anti-imperialist activist and member of Samidoun Spain. The interview was conducted when she spoke before the Spanish Congress of Deputies on Palestine and the instrumentalization of anti-Semitism allegations to suppress Palestine solidarity, at …

WSWS (2023-01-02). UK firefighters voting for first national strike since 2003. wsws.org Firefighters and fire service control staff across the UK, members of the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) are currently voting on whether to take strike action in pursuit of a pay claim. Firefighters and control staff are being offered a sub inflation pay cut offer of five percent. The last national firefighters strikes was in 2003.

Thomas Buckley (2023-01-02). From Sri Lanka to Salinas. globalresearch.ca

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-02). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-02). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

Editor (2023-01-02). The Chris Hedges Report: A New Book of Migrant Stories Exposes Europe's War on Refugees. scheerpost.com In their book, 'Map of Hope and Sorrow,' co-authors Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan trace the stories of five refugees trapped in Greece's brutal refugee camps.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). Science Saturday: Researchers investigate precision nutrition to improve health, prevent diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could prescribing specific nutrients, grains, fruits and vegetables tailored to a person's DNA and other biological characteristics help improve their health? Precision nutrition took center stage at Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine Conference Nov. 2—3, 2022, in Rochester, Minnesota, where some of the world's top experts shared their knowledge of the potential benefits of tailoring nutrients and dietary guidance to a person's genes, metabolism, microbiome and other distinguishing characteristics. The ultimate goal of the holistic approach is to…

ecns.cn (2023-01-02). Mainland official calls for joint efforts for national reunification across Taiwan Strait. ecns.cn A senior official on the Chinese mainland has called for joint efforts from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to work toward the goals of national rejuvenation and national reunification.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-02). Antibiotic shortage – what to know if you can't find amoxicillin. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Food and Drug Administration, a national shortage of different medications, including a common antibiotic, is expected to last several months. "The most notable one is probably amoxicillin. It is a common antibiotic that we use to treat a variety of childhood infections, including ear infections, strep throat, and pneumonia," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says parents may notice this as they take their children to…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-02). Deadliest Year for Palestinians in Decades: Israeli Forces Kill 240, including 47 children. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables to the Palestinian struggle nationally, regionally and internationally. Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine War starting in …

ecns.cn (2023-01-02). Interpretation safeguards HK national security. ecns.cn The interpretation came in response to a request by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu for clarification on whether overseas lawyers who are not qualified to generally practice in the SAR can take part in national security cases.

ecns.cn (2023-01-02). Int'l experts upbeat about China 2023 | Italian professor of international studies: I hope Europe and China can further increase corporation. ecns.cn Fabio Massimo Parenti, a professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence says: "My best wishes to all of you and we hope we can further increase our corporation between Italy and China, between Europe and China for a better world, because we cannot escape this integration if we want to really solve the current problems."

Victor Castellanos (2023-01-02). Venezuela Present at Lula's Inauguration in Brazil. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president, while harshly criticising former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and promising a change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty and racism, all of which were exacerbated during Bolsonaro's rule. | The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, arrived in Brasilia on Sunday afternoon as the official representative of the Venezuelan State. | "On behalf of the President of the republic Nicolás Maduro, we arrived in the city of Brasilia to accompany our Brazilian brothers and sisters in the…

Staff (2023-01-01). øCuáles son las películas más esperadas de 2023? cubadebate.cu Según los estudios fílmicos y las principales publicaciones especializadas, las películas de 2023 llegarán con barbies, transformers, sirenitas, superhéroes, princesas, asesinos en serie, Willy Wonka, Indiana Jones, Ethan Hunt, John Wick, entre otros personajes atractivos para el público.

Greg Roest (2023-01-01). Cryptocurrency : the Medium IS the Scam. realprogressives.org In a piece titled "Cryptocurrency: Don't Blame the Medium for the Scam," libertarian Counterpunch contributor Thomas Knapp wholly misunderstands the nature of money and cryptocurrency.

Editor (2023-01-01). A Year in Review: ScheerPost's Top Stories. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-01-01). Everything to Know About Lula's Inauguration. scheerpost.com

Scott Ferguson (2023-01-01). Making Digital Public Spaces w/ MUSICat. mronline.org This month Money on the Left is joined by the folks behind the MUSICat project, an online music streaming service for public libraries designed to share heterogenous local music with local community members. We speak with Preston Austin and Kelly Hiser from Rabble, the company behind MUSICat, as well as with Racquel ("Rocky") Mann, who coordinates the MUSICat service with Edmontonians as Digital Initiatives Librarian for Edmonton Public Library.

Anonymous103 (2023-01-01). Russian Military Revealed Goal Of Missile Strikes On New Year Eve In Ukraine. southfront.org Illustrative Image | On January 1, the Russian Ministry of Defence published another daily briefing on the ongoing developments of the special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian military reported on the battles on the front lines in the Donbass as well as on the targets of the recent strikes throughout the war-torn country. | On December 31, air alert sounded throughout Ukraine. The authorities of several Ukrainian regions and cities confirmed the explosions. In particular, according to the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klit…

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). Qin Gang: China remains committed to global peace, development. ecns.cn Qin Gang, China's current ambassador to the United States and now newly named foreign minister, said China is committed to its foreign policy goals of upholding world peace and promoting common development, while remaining dedicated to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Fight Back (2023-01-01). Philippines: Aim for revolutionary victories in 2023. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its revolutionary greetings to the Filipino people, their heroic Red fighters, and all their revolutionary forces as we enter the new year 2023. Let us aim high and make big revolutionary strides this coming year. | The Party is filled with optimism that it can achieve its goals of consolidating its ranks and leading the comprehensive advance of the revolution. The Party and all revolutionary forces owe it to the Filipino people who are determined to resist f…

_____ (2023-01-01). 2022 Saw Historic Strikes In The United Kingdom. popularresistance.org Even as 2022 is drawing to a close, the strike wave that swept the UK this year, with hundreds of thousands of workers in the public and private sector downing tools to fight for better conditions, is showing no signs of slowing down. | On Saturday, December 31, over 1,000 members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) who are working on contract as cleaners in the railways are set to walkout in the first national strike of its kind. Workers at private companies including Atalian Servest, Churchill, and Mitie are fighting for a £15 ($18.04) per hour wage, company sick pay, good…

_____ (2023-01-01). Legalization For All Network Condemns Anti-Immigrant Supreme Court Ruling. popularresistance.org The Legalization for All Network condemns the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on December 27 to force the government to keep the terrible Trump-era 'Title 42' policy in place that closed the US-México border to asylum-seekers. | Trump invoked Title 42 more than two years ago, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to close the border to asylum-seekers attempting to present themselves at the US-México border to request asylum. It is a right under international law to request asylum and have that request considered. That has not happened at the US-México border since Title 42 was imposed. | Trump's implementa…

_____ (2023-01-01). On The Influence Of NeoNazism In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) took part in the Holocaust, killing at least 100,000 Jews and Poles. Mykola Lebed, a top aide to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the fascist OUN-B, was recruited by the C.I.A. after the war, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. National Archives. | The government study said, "Bandera's wing (OUN/B) was a militant fascist organization." Bandera's closest deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko, said: ""I…fully appreciate the undeniably harmful and hostile role of the Jews, w…

_____ (2023-01-01). The First Big Strike Of 2023 May Happen Behind Prison Walls. popularresistance.org All in all, 2022 was a banner year for organized labor. Thousands of workers in a wide variety of industries unionized; they pushed back against union-busting campaigns from oligarchs and corporate hit men; they went on strike and protested unfair treatment, from California to Alabama and everywhere in between. Public support for unions shot up to 71 percent, and the worryingly under-resourced National Labor Relations Board was inundated with more union election petitions than it could handle. Members of Gen Z, the youngest generation of workers, are even more pro-union than their millennial parents, and they are…

Staff (2023-01-01). First Chevron Tanker Arrives in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 30, US news agencies reported that the multinational oil company Chevron Corp sent an oil tanker to Venezuela to load the first shipment of crude from the country bound for the United States, after almost four years of no operations, following the unilateral blockade imposed on Venezuela by the White House. | Agencies cited "a person familiar with the matter" who provided the information with "location data" of the ship approaching Venezuelan waters. | That same unidentified source said that "another tanker will arrive at the beginning of January" and it will carry a shipment of diluents to a…

Victor Castellanos (2023-01-01). Venezuela's GDP Grew 17.73% Between January and September 2022. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 30, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that Venezuela's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 17.73% between January and September 2022. | BCV reported that the Venezuelan GDP recorded growths of 17.45%; 23.30% and 13.22% in the first, second and third quarters of 2022, respectively, with which the aggregated January-September GDP closed with a rebound of 17.73%, compared to the same period in 2021. | "With this result, there have been five consecutive quarters in which positive variations are evident in most economic activities, which reflect the favorable performance of the national pr…

Middle East Monitor (2023-01-01). Will electing the most Far Right Extremist Government Ever cost Israel International Support? juancole.com By Mohammad Makram Balawi | ( Middle East Monitor ) The results of the last round of Israeli elections must have represented a big blow to US hopes and efforts as they placed their bets on the former caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid. However, the results have shown that they bet on the …

_____ (2023-01-01). Declassified Intelligence Files Expose Inconvenient Truths Of Bosnian War. popularresistance.org The established mythos of the Bosnian War is that Serb separatists, encouraged and directed by Slobodan Milo≈°eviƒá and his acolytes in Belgrade, sought to forcibly seize Croat and Bosniak territory in service of creating an irredentist "Greater Serbia." Every step of the way, they purged indigenous Muslims in a concerted, deliberate genocide, while refusing to engage in constructive peace talks. | This narrative was aggressively perpetuated by the mainstream media at the time, and further legitimized by the UN-created International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) once the…

_____ (2023-01-01). Imran Khan: Pakistan Should Be Non-Aligned In Cold War. popularresistance.org Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was overthrown in April 2022 in a soft coup supported by the United States. Khan argued that he was targeted due to his independent foreign policy, comparing his ouster to the CIA coup in Iran in 1953. | Since leaving office, Khan has held massive protests across the country, blasting the unelected coup regime for surrendering its sovereignty to Washington. | "The US has made Pakistan a slave without having to invade it," Khan fumed. "The people of Pakistan will never accept the imported government." Khan has also become a leading voice on the international stage calling for t…

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). China keeps to national character in face of adversity: Xi. ecns.cn At every turn of the year, we always think of the great character of resilience that the Chinese nation has carried forward through millennia, President Xi Jinping said on Saturday in his 2023 New Year Address.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). China's non-manufacturing PMI down in December. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 41.6 in December 2022, down from 46.7 in November, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). China's manufacturing PMI down in December. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector came in at 47 in December 2022, down from 48 in November, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Saturday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). Full text of Xi Jinping's speech at New Year gathering of CPPCC National Committee. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the New Year gathering of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). National legislature set to convene annual session on March 5. ecns.cn The 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, will kick off its first session in Beijing on March 5, according to a decision made by the NPC Standing Committee on Friday.

Igor Carvalho (2023-01-01). Eradication of poverty and hunger key priorities for Lula government. peoplesdispatch.org On Sunday January 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party of Brazil (PT) gave his first speech to the Brazilian people as president at the National Congress. In the speech, he presented a brief diagnosis of the situation and conditions of the country that he will govern over for the next four years. | "It's appalling," said Lula, about the conditions in which he receives the country from his predecessor, former president Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party, who abandoned the country and went to the US just before the inauguration. "They have emptied out the resources for health. They have dismantled th…

Brenda Norrell (2023-01-01). Enticed by Wealth, the Media is Complicit in the Crimes of Corporations in Indian Country. indybay.org Enticed by wealth and self-glory — the media, corrupt tribal governments, and self-dealing non-profits operate a vacuum for truth, violating the sacred places of origin. The most censored issues in Indian country in 2022.

Water Protector Legal Collective (2023-01-01). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

Greg Roest (2023-01-01). Cryptocurrency : the Medium IS the Scam. realprogressives.org In a piece titled "Cryptocurrency: Don't Blame the Medium for the Scam," libertarian Counterpunch contributor Thomas Knapp wholly misunderstands the nature of money and cryptocurrency.

Scott Ferguson (2023-01-01). Making Digital Public Spaces w/ MUSICat. mronline.org This month Money on the Left is joined by the folks behind the MUSICat project, an online music streaming service for public libraries designed to share heterogenous local music with local community members. We speak with Preston Austin and Kelly Hiser from Rabble, the company behind MUSICat, as well as with Racquel ("Rocky") Mann, who coordinates the MUSICat service with Edmontonians as Digital Initiatives Librarian for Edmonton Public Library.

Anonymous103 (2023-01-01). Russian Military Revealed Goal Of Missile Strikes On New Year Eve In Ukraine. southfront.org Illustrative Image | On January 1, the Russian Ministry of Defence published another daily briefing on the ongoing developments of the special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian military reported on the battles on the front lines in the Donbass as well as on the targets of the recent strikes throughout the war-torn country. | On December 31, air alert sounded throughout Ukraine. The authorities of several Ukrainian regions and cities confirmed the explosions. In particular, according to the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klit…

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). Qin Gang: China remains committed to global peace, development. ecns.cn Qin Gang, China's current ambassador to the United States and now newly named foreign minister, said China is committed to its foreign policy goals of upholding world peace and promoting common development, while remaining dedicated to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Fight Back (2023-01-01). Philippines: Aim for revolutionary victories in 2023. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its revolutionary greetings to the Filipino people, their heroic Red fighters, and all their revolutionary forces as we enter the new year 2023. Let us aim high and make big revolutionary strides this coming year. | The Party is filled with optimism that it can achieve its goals of consolidating its ranks and leading the comprehensive advance of the revolution. The Party and all revolutionary forces owe it to the Filipino people who are determined to resist f…

_____ (2023-01-01). 2022 Saw Historic Strikes In The United Kingdom. popularresistance.org Even as 2022 is drawing to a close, the strike wave that swept the UK this year, with hundreds of thousands of workers in the public and private sector downing tools to fight for better conditions, is showing no signs of slowing down. | On Saturday, December 31, over 1,000 members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) who are working on contract as cleaners in the railways are set to walkout in the first national strike of its kind. Workers at private companies including Atalian Servest, Churchill, and Mitie are fighting for a £15 ($18.04) per hour wage, company sick pay, good…

_____ (2023-01-01). Legalization For All Network Condemns Anti-Immigrant Supreme Court Ruling. popularresistance.org The Legalization for All Network condemns the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on December 27 to force the government to keep the terrible Trump-era 'Title 42' policy in place that closed the US-México border to asylum-seekers. | Trump invoked Title 42 more than two years ago, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to close the border to asylum-seekers attempting to present themselves at the US-México border to request asylum. It is a right under international law to request asylum and have that request considered. That has not happened at the US-México border since Title 42 was imposed. | Trump's implementa…

_____ (2023-01-01). On The Influence Of NeoNazism In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) took part in the Holocaust, killing at least 100,000 Jews and Poles. Mykola Lebed, a top aide to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the fascist OUN-B, was recruited by the C.I.A. after the war, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. National Archives. | The government study said, "Bandera's wing (OUN/B) was a militant fascist organization." Bandera's closest deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko, said: ""I…fully appreciate the undeniably harmful and hostile role of the Jews, w…

_____ (2023-01-01). The First Big Strike Of 2023 May Happen Behind Prison Walls. popularresistance.org All in all, 2022 was a banner year for organized labor. Thousands of workers in a wide variety of industries unionized; they pushed back against union-busting campaigns from oligarchs and corporate hit men; they went on strike and protested unfair treatment, from California to Alabama and everywhere in between. Public support for unions shot up to 71 percent, and the worryingly under-resourced National Labor Relations Board was inundated with more union election petitions than it could handle. Members of Gen Z, the youngest generation of workers, are even more pro-union than their millennial parents, and they are…

Staff (2023-01-01). First Chevron Tanker Arrives in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 30, US news agencies reported that the multinational oil company Chevron Corp sent an oil tanker to Venezuela to load the first shipment of crude from the country bound for the United States, after almost four years of no operations, following the unilateral blockade imposed on Venezuela by the White House. | Agencies cited "a person familiar with the matter" who provided the information with "location data" of the ship approaching Venezuelan waters. | That same unidentified source said that "another tanker will arrive at the beginning of January" and it will carry a shipment of diluents to a…

Victor Castellanos (2023-01-01). Venezuela's GDP Grew 17.73% Between January and September 2022. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 30, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that Venezuela's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 17.73% between January and September 2022. | BCV reported that the Venezuelan GDP recorded growths of 17.45%; 23.30% and 13.22% in the first, second and third quarters of 2022, respectively, with which the aggregated January-September GDP closed with a rebound of 17.73%, compared to the same period in 2021. | "With this result, there have been five consecutive quarters in which positive variations are evident in most economic activities, which reflect the favorable performance of the national pr…

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). China keeps to national character in face of adversity: Xi. ecns.cn At every turn of the year, we always think of the great character of resilience that the Chinese nation has carried forward through millennia, President Xi Jinping said on Saturday in his 2023 New Year Address.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). Int'l experts upbeat about China 2023 | Italian professor of international studies: I hope Europe and China can further increase corporation. ecns.cn Fabio Massimo Parenti, a professor of international studies at the International Institute Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence says: "My best wishes to all of you and we hope we can further increase our corporation between Italy and China, between Europe and China for a better world, because we cannot escape this integration if we want to really solve the current problems."

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). China's non-manufacturing PMI down in December. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 41.6 in December 2022, down from 46.7 in November, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). China's manufacturing PMI down in December. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector came in at 47 in December 2022, down from 48 in November, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Saturday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). Full text of Xi Jinping's speech at New Year gathering of CPPCC National Committee. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the New Year gathering of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Friday.

ecns.cn (2023-01-01). National legislature set to convene annual session on March 5. ecns.cn The 14th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, will kick off its first session in Beijing on March 5, according to a decision made by the NPC Standing Committee on Friday.

Middle East Monitor (2023-01-01). Will electing the most Far Right Extremist Government Ever cost Israel International Support? juancole.com By Mohammad Makram Balawi | ( Middle East Monitor ) The results of the last round of Israeli elections must have represented a big blow to US hopes and efforts as they placed their bets on the former caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid. However, the results have shown that they bet on the …

Jeff Pao (2022-12-31). China urged to disclose more Covid DNA data. asiatimes.com Western experts are urging China to disclose more data related to its current Covid wave, particularly the genome sequencing information that can be used to identify new mutant strains. The United States, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan have recently reintroduced Covid tests for travelers from China, which will allow more people to fly overseas …

Editor (2022-12-31). Top Scheer Intelligence Episodes of 2022: Michael Brenner, Ellen Brown, Gabor Maté and More. scheerpost.com

SP Editor (2022-12-31). Ralph Nader: The New York Times Is Diminishing Itself. scheerpost.com

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). Science Saturday: Researchers investigate precision nutrition to improve health, prevent diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could prescribing specific nutrients, grains, fruits and vegetables tailored to a person's DNA and other biological characteristics help improve their health? Precision nutrition took center stage at Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine Conference Nov. 2—3, 2022, in Rochester, Minnesota, where some of the world's top experts shared their knowledge of the potential benefits of tailoring nutrients and dietary guidance to a person's genes, metabolism, microbiome and other distinguishing characteristics. The ultimate goal of the holistic approach is to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). Antibiotic shortage – what to know if you can't find amoxicillin. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Food and Drug Administration, a national shortage of different medications, including a common antibiotic, is expected to last several months. "The most notable one is probably amoxicillin. It is a common antibiotic that we use to treat a variety of childhood infections, including ear infections, strep throat, and pneumonia," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says parents may notice this as they take their children to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

David Kattenburg (2022-12-31). UN Votes for International Court of Justice to Examine Israeli Occupation. truthout.org It was a vote Israel and the U.S. moved heaven and earth to stall, but that took place anyway, with timing that couldn't have been more apt. On the evening of December 30, two days after a declaration by the incoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu that "the Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel," including the illegally annexed Syrian Golan… |

ecns.cn (2022-12-31). NPC Standing Committee gives interpretation of provisions in Hong Kong national security law. ecns.cn The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Friday adopted an interpretation of Article 14 and Article 47 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

ecns.cn (2022-12-31). Central gov't office for safeguarding national security in HKSAR speaks on NPC Standing Committee's interpretation of Hong Kong national security law. ecns.cn The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday evening spoke on an interpretation of the provisions in the Hong Kong national security law.

ecns.cn (2022-12-31). HKSAR welcomes NPC Standing Committee's interpretation of provisions in Hong Kong national security law. ecns.cn John Lee, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), on Friday welcomed and thanked the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) for an interpretation of provisions in the Hong Kong national security law.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-12-31). Counterinsurgency War: U.S. Bioresearch Labs, Bases and Troops in Peru. libya360.wordpress.com Stella Calloni Vraem (Valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers), host to 40 US military bases, allegedly combatting "drug trafficking". Peru has been experiencing a dramatic crisis since December 7. This crisis was caused by the illegal dismissal of President Pedro Castillo, imposed by the Parliament under the control of the Peruvian ultra-right wing,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-12-31). How the USSR Changed the Face of the World. libya360.wordpress.com Ekaterina Blinova On December 30, 2022, Russians and others across the globe commemorated the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). How did the 70 years of the USSR change the world? "It was the world's first socialist country, a system based on public ownership, state planning, social welfare…

Michael Jansen (2022-12-31). Muslim Authorities Condemn Taliban Ban on Women in Universities, as NGOs Close in Protest. juancole.com By Michael Jansen | ( The Irish Times ) Four global aid agencies have suspended services in Afghanistan in response to a Taliban ban on women working at non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In a joint statement, Care, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee said: "We cannot effectively reach …

Rick Rozoff (2022-12-31). Increasing kill chain speed: Pentagon augments HIMARS for Ukraine, Latvia, Taiwan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense PostDecember 29, 2022 US Army Seeks HIMARS Fire Control Systems for Ukraine, Taiwan The US Army has sought information on M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) fire control systems for partner nations Ukraine, Taiwan, and Latvia. The US Army Contracting Command issued a "source sought" notification last month for International Field Artillery Tactical …

scorinoco (2022-12-31). Venezuela Opposition Ends Guaidó's 'Interim Government'. orinocotribune.com On Friday, December 30, the Venezuelan opposition put an end to the farce of the "interim government" of Juan Guaidó, during a Zoom meeting of former deputies of the extinct National Assembly board of the 2015-2020 term. | With 72 votes in favor of ending the "interim government," 29 against, and eight abstentions, the former deputies removed Guaidó, who failed to get enough support for continuing as the "interim president" of Venezuela. He had headed the fictitious government for about four years, after proclaiming himself as the "president in charge" in a Caracas plaza in February 2019 in violation of all const…

Jeff Pao (2022-12-31). China urged to disclose more Covid DNA data. asiatimes.com Western experts are urging China to disclose more data related to its current Covid wave, particularly the genome sequencing information that can be used to identify new mutant strains. The United States, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan have recently reintroduced Covid tests for travelers from China, which will allow more people to fly overseas …

Water Protector Legal Collective (2022-12-31). Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Remain Evicted from Homes, Denied Justice by Court. indybay.org Winnemucca Indian Colony elderly and disabled remain evicted from their homes by a disputed tribal council whose leader lives out of state. The Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals of Nevada denied the Native homeowners justice.

SP Editor (2022-12-31). Ralph Nader: The New York Times Is Diminishing Itself. scheerpost.com

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). Science Saturday: Researchers investigate precision nutrition to improve health, prevent diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Could prescribing specific nutrients, grains, fruits and vegetables tailored to a person's DNA and other biological characteristics help improve their health? Precision nutrition took center stage at Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine Conference Nov. 2—3, 2022, in Rochester, Minnesota, where some of the world's top experts shared their knowledge of the potential benefits of tailoring nutrients and dietary guidance to a person's genes, metabolism, microbiome and other distinguishing characteristics. The ultimate goal of the holistic approach is to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). Antibiotic shortage – what to know if you can't find amoxicillin. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Food and Drug Administration, a national shortage of different medications, including a common antibiotic, is expected to last several months. "The most notable one is probably amoxicillin. It is a common antibiotic that we use to treat a variety of childhood infections, including ear infections, strep throat, and pneumonia," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says parents may notice this as they take their children to…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). NIH's All of Us Research Program returns health-related DNA results to participants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants. The reports detail whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their bodies might process certain medications. The All of Us Research Program collects participants' blood, urine, and saliva samples. These biosamples are stored and managed for research at a specialized All of Us Research Program biobank at Mayo Clinic. "It is rewarding for us at the…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-12-31). Cold weather medical emergencies to know about: frostbite and hypothermia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The National Weather Service says arctic cold and bitter winds will spread across much of the U.S., and some states will experience dangerously low temperatures dipping well below zero. This is especially concerning during the busy holiday week when many people are expected to travel. One concern, if you are exposed to the extreme cold, should be frostbite. Frostbite Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. First, your skin becomes very cold…

ecns.cn (2022-12-31). NPC Standing Committee gives interpretation of provisions in Hong Kong national security law. ecns.cn The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Friday adopted an interpretation of Article 14 and Article 47 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

ecns.cn (2022-12-31). Central gov't office for safeguarding national security in HKSAR speaks on NPC Standing Committee's interpretation of Hong Kong national security law. ecns.cn The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday evening spoke on an interpretation of the provisions in the Hong Kong national security law.

ecns.cn (2022-12-31). HKSAR welcomes NPC Standing Committee's interpretation of provisions in Hong Kong national security law. ecns.cn John Lee, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), on Friday welcomed and thanked the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) for an interpretation of provisions in the Hong Kong national security law.

Michael Jansen (2022-12-31). Muslim Authorities Condemn Taliban Ban on Women in Universities, as NGOs Close in Protest. juancole.com By Michael Jansen | ( The Irish Times ) Four global aid agencies have suspended services in Afghanistan in response to a Taliban ban on women working at non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In a joint statement, Care, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee said: "We cannot effectively reach …

Stephen Lane (2022-12-30). Indianapolis communities unite to fight against undemocratic library board. liberationnews.org The struggle against the corruption of the top leadership of the Indianapolis Public Library Board of Trustees, which heightened after their refusal to appoint the top candidate as CEO, is morphing into a broader movement to create true democratic control over Indianapolis' public institutions.

infobrics (2022-12-30). India Remains Steadfast in Partnership with Russia. infobrics.org Despite pressure from Western countries, India has remained steadfast in its partnership with Russia, refusing to condemn the war in Ukraine and not joining Western sanctions against Moscow…

A Guest Author (2022-12-30). STOP U.S. Wars: MLK Week of Actions Jan. 13-22. workers.org This lightly edited call to action is from the United National Antiwar Coalition. "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government; I can not be silent." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1967 After more than 75 actions in October, we held a meeting to discuss . . . |

Editor (2022-12-30). FBI Cointelpro Is Back and Worse Than Ever. scheerpost.com By James Bovard / CounterPunch Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI's latest war on Americans' freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other …

Editor (2022-12-30). On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-12-30). Patrick Lawrence: The Souls of Ukrainian Folk. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-12-30). Scheer & Hedges: They Know Everything About You. scheerpost.com Editor's Note: These are videos taken from the Real News Network, edited into one video for easier viewing experience. All clips belong to the Real News Network, and are being published here because of their timeless commentary, and relevance to the recently exposed corporate state censorship regime revealed in the Twitter Files.

Editor (2022-12-30). State Department Approves $180 Million Arms Sales for Taiwan. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-12-30). Watch Chris Hedges on C-SPAN On Jan. 1. scheerpost.com ScheerPost columnist, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins Program ID: 524629-1 | Category: Call-In | Format: Call-In | Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States | Will Air: Jan 01, 2023 | 12: 00pm EST | C-SPAN 2 | Airing Details: | Jan 01, 2023 | 12: 00pm EST | C-SPAN 2 | Jan 01, 2023 | 2: 00pm EST | C-S…

Editor (2022-12-30). Zelensky Appoints Sexologist Pyramid Schemer as Ambassador to Bulgaria. scheerpost.com While Zelensky hypnotizes Western governments into forking over vast sums to finance his war effort, he has appointed a literal hypnotist (and part-time sexologist multi-level marketer) to a high-level diplomatic position.

Fernando A. T. Ximenes (2022-12-30). Twenty-Two years of austerity in Timor-Leste: The IMF and rebuilding the neoliberal state from scratch. mronline.org Timor-Leste was proclaimed by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) as a sovereign state on November 28, 1975.

JANET (2022-12-30). Japan's constitutional amendment: a dangerous signal. iacenter.org

Ryan Lockwood (2022-12-30). Buffalo 'bomb cyclone' exposes failure of capitalism. workers.org Buffalo, New York Buffalo is reeling from its worst snowstorm in a generation. From Dec. 23-25, Western New York state was ravaged by a "bomb cyclone," which brought hurricane-force winds, subzero wind chills and over 50 inches of snowfall to the region. But Winter Storm Elliot is as much a . . . |

Marc Batko, W Meyer, K Chavent (2022-12-30). The Humor of Jesus and The cry of the poor. indybay.org After much meditation and reflection, I firmly believe that Jesus made fun of individualism and profit-oriented economic systems. Winning people to trust the infinite, invisible and transcendent God was surely his central goal. "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?" he asked his calculating counterpart. "No sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent. You are worth more…!

_____ (2022-12-30). Historic Golden Rule Peace Boat On Its Way to Cuba. popularresistance.org The historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat is on its way to Cuba. The storied wooden boat, which was sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear testing, set sail from Key West, Florida on Friday morning, and will arrive at the Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday morning, New Years Eve day. The 34-foot ketch belongs to Veterans For Peace, and implements its mission "to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons." | The five crew members will be joined by Veterans For Peace members who are flying to Havana to participate in an educational Arts &…

Patrick Gallegos (2022-12-30). Los Alamos National Laboratory escalates plutonium core production, putting New Mexicans and the whole world at risk. liberationnews.org LANL has a long history of nuclear safety incidents. I…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-30). Always Room for More: Zionism's Endless Extremism. orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Salt Dec 24, 2022 | In the latest incarnation of Israeli politics, incoming 'prime minister' Benyamin Netanyahu has given the most extreme figures on an already extreme spectrum the portfolios for 'national security' and settlement-building on the West Bank. | Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, who has been allocated the national security portfolio, recently called on his settler followers to shoot Palestinians who resist the takeover of their homes and land. That can be taken as a portent of how he intends to do his job. | Ben Gvir's portfolio gives him control over…

_____ (2022-12-30). A Clash of Competing Nationalisms in Taiwan. strategic-culture.org Imagine if a high-profile American politician, such as the speaker of the House, traveled to Taipei, met with the political leaders of the island, and … nothing happened. The People's Republic of China did not visibly react, the Taiwanese leadership sought to downplay the emphasis on autonomy from the Chinese mainland, and visits on the official's itinerary included monuments to the island's past authoritarian leaders, highlighting hopes of eventual cross-strait reconciliation.

Anonymous Contributor (2022-12-30). Orlando Community Defends Event Targeted With Far-Right Threats. itsgoingdown.org Action report on recent community defense of a popular drag tour. Originally posted to Iron Snowflake. Despite an explicit threat by Florida's Christian Nationalist governor, Ron DeSantis to take legal action against the venue if anyone under 18 was seen inside, a drag show scheduled on December 28th went forward without any problems. According to…

Anonymous103 (2022-12-30). "It's The Industry, Stupid" Economic Nationalism Is On The Rise, Bringing New Risks. southfront.org As the specter of deindustrialization haunts the world, economic warfare is to become much more dangerous than it already is,…

ecns.cn (2022-12-30). Nation sets hot pace for science and tech innovation. ecns.cn Cities in Asia have seen outstanding performances at scientific research institutions and on scientific infrastructure, and are pushing the international innovation landscape toward multipolarity and green, low-carbon development.

ecns.cn (2022-12-30). U.S. urged to respect China's interests, concerns. ecns.cn The United States must respect China's core interests and major concerns if it really wants to have positive and constructive dialogue with China, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2022-12-30). China to retain pull for MNCs in 2023. ecns.cn China will remain a key go-to destination for multinational corporations in 2023 as the country's massive and lucrative domestic market and its opening-up measures boost business confidence amid subdued global investment sentiment, said business executives on Thursday.

Farrah Hassen (2022-12-30). A year of global displacement. nationofchange.org This year's record-breaking global displacement crisis calls for greater protections and investment by the international community instead of more indifference and cruelty.

Fight Back (2022-12-30). Legalization for All Network condemns anti-immigrant Supreme Court ruling, demands end to Trump-era Title 42. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Legalization for All Network. | The Legalization for All Network condemns the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on December 27 to force the government to keep the terrible Trump-era 'Title 42' policy in place that closed the US-México border to asylum-seekers. | Trump invoked Title 42 more than two years ago, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to close the border to asylum-seekers attempting to present themselves at the US-México border to request asylum. It is a right under international law to request asylum and have that request c…

infobrics (2022-12-30). Russia, China Signed Agreement on Work to Study Moon. infobrics.org An intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China on the creation of the international scientific lunar station has already been signed, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said…

infobrics (2022-12-30). "It's the industry, stupid" – economic nationalism is on the rise, bringing new risks. infobrics.org As the specter of deindustrialization haunts the world, economic warfare is to become much more dangerous than it already is, by turning things into an existential challenge for the concerned parties.

Mike Ludwig (2022-12-30). Putin Planned Before Invasion to Cut Off Ukraine's Electricity During the Winter. truthout.org Despite international calls for a holiday ceasefire, the Russian military launched massive missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian towns and energy infrastructure this week, killing several civilians and robbing millions more of heat and light as the new year approaches. Russian President Vladimir Putin is clearly punishing Ukrainians for resisting his invasion and locking his forces in a bloody… |

scorinoco (2022-12-30). Bolivia: Camacho Evaded 4 Court Summons to Testify in Coup D'État I Case. orinocotribune.com Luis Fernando Camacho, the governor of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, avoided testifying in the Coup d'Etat I case at least four times, defying the summons of the Attorney General's Office. | During the Bolivian extreme right's 36-day strike in Santa Cruz demanding that the national census be carried out in 2023, Camacho, who was one of the principal figures in the coup against Evo Morales in 2019, stated that he would not go to La Paz and turn himself in to the judiciary. | "If they want to send me to prison, let them come to my town, because I am not going to go and turn myself in to Masismo as they want me to," Camacho…

Staff (2022-12-30). RIP Pelé: Afro-Brazilian Soccer Icon Overcame Racism & Poverty to Be Ambassador for Beautiful Game. democracynow.org Brazil has begun three days of national mourning to mark the death of the global soccer icon Pelé at the age of 82. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé was a poor Afro-Brazilian who led the Brazilian national soccer team to its first World Cup title in 1958 at just 17 years old, and ultimately two more times in later years — more than any other player in history. Pelé was seen as a symbol of Brazil and played for 20 years in the country before retiring and becoming a global ambassador for the sport of soccer. He was also criticized for embodying the commercialization of the sport and was seen as complyin…

Uriel Araujo (2022-12-30). "It's the industry, stupid" — Economic Nationalism Is on the Rise, Bringing New Risks. globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad (2022-12-30). South Africans Are Fighting for Crumbs: A Conversation With Trade Union Leader Irvin Jim. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra Dec 23, 2022 | South Africa is sitting on a tinderbox, says Irvin Jim, General Secretary of the country's largest trade union NUMSA. The solution is to foster a spirit of solidarity which will have to come from people's struggles and movements | In mid-December, the African National Congress (ANC) held its national conference where South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was reelected as leader of his party, which means that he will lead the ANC into the 2024 general elections. A few delegates at the Johannesburg Expo Center in Nasrec, Gauteng—where the party con…

WSWS (2022-12-30). France whitewashes December 23 assassination of Kurdish nationalists in Paris. wsws.org The far-right attack on d'Enghien Street in Paris testifies to the growing threat of far-right violence against immigrants, workers and youth across Europe.

WSWS (2022-12-30). Poverty, inequality and official indifference are to blame for the dozens killed by the Christmas weekend blizzard in Buffalo. wsws.org Freezing temperatures and massive snow fall have left over 60 dead nationally since last Friday, with the epicenter in Buffalo, New York.

infobrics (2022-12-30). India Remains Steadfast in Partnership with Russia. infobrics.org Despite pressure from Western countries, India has remained steadfast in its partnership with Russia, refusing to condemn the war in Ukraine and not joining Western sanctions against Moscow…

Stephen Lane (2022-12-30). Indianapolis communities unite to fight against undemocratic library board. liberationnews.org The struggle against the corruption of the top leadership of the Indianapolis Public Library Board of Trustees, which heightened after their refusal to appoint the top candidate as CEO, is morphing into a broader movement to create true democratic control over Indianapolis' public institutions.

A Guest Author (2022-12-30). STOP U.S. Wars: MLK Week of Actions Jan. 13-22. workers.org This lightly edited call to action is from the United National Antiwar Coalition. "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government; I can not be silent." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1967 After more than 75 actions in October, we held a meeting to discuss . . . |

Ryan Lockwood (2022-12-30). Buffalo 'bomb cyclone' exposes failure of capitalism. workers.org Buffalo, New York Buffalo is reeling from its worst snowstorm in a generation. From Dec. 23-25, Western New York state was ravaged by a "bomb cyclone," which brought hurricane-force winds, subzero wind chills and over 50 inches of snowfall to the region. But Winter Storm Elliot is as much a . . . |

Marc Batko, W Meyer, K Chavent (2022-12-30). The Humor of Jesus and The cry of the poor. indybay.org After much meditation and reflection, I firmly believe that Jesus made fun of individualism and profit-oriented economic systems. Winning people to trust the infinite, invisible and transcendent God was surely his central goal. "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?" he asked his calculating counterpart. "No sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent. You are worth more…!

ecns.cn (2022-12-30). Nation sets hot pace for science and tech innovation. ecns.cn Cities in Asia have seen outstanding performances at scientific research institutions and on scientific infrastructure, and are pushing the international innovation landscape toward multipolarity and green, low-carbon development.

ecns.cn (2022-12-30). U.S. urged to respect China's interests, concerns. ecns.cn The United States must respect China's core interests and major concerns if it really wants to have positive and constructive dialogue with China, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2022-12-30). China to retain pull for MNCs in 2023. ecns.cn China will remain a key go-to destination for multinational corporations in 2023 as the country's massive and lucrative domestic market and its opening-up measures boost business confidence amid subdued global investment sentiment, said business executives on Thursday.

infobrics (2022-12-30). Russia, China Signed Agreement on Work to Study Moon. infobrics.org An intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China on the creation of the international scientific lunar station has already been signed, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-30). Always Room for More: Zionism's Endless Extremism. orinocotribune.com By Jeremy Salt Dec 24, 2022 | In the latest incarnation of Israeli politics, incoming 'prime minister' Benyamin Netanyahu has given the most extreme figures on an already extreme spectrum the portfolios for 'national security' and settlement-building on the West Bank. | Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, who has been allocated the national security portfolio, recently called on his settler followers to shoot Palestinians who resist the takeover of their homes and land. That can be taken as a portent of how he intends to do his job. | Ben Gvir's portfolio gives him control over…

Patrick Gallegos (2022-12-30). Los Alamos National Laboratory escalates plutonium core production, putting New Mexicans and the whole world at risk. liberationnews.org LANL has a long history of nuclear safety incidents. I…

WSWS (2022-12-30). France whitewashes December 23 assassination of Kurdish nationalists in Paris. wsws.org The far-right attack on d'Enghien Street in Paris testifies to the growing threat of far-right violence against immigrants, workers and youth across Europe.

WSWS (2022-12-30). Poverty, inequality and official indifference are to blame for the dozens killed by the Christmas weekend blizzard in Buffalo. wsws.org Freezing temperatures and massive snow fall have left over 60 dead nationally since last Friday, with the epicenter in Buffalo, New York.

infobrics (2022-12-29). Creating a BRICS Reserve Currency: A Long-term Project. infobrics.org Russia and other BRICS members — Brazil, India, China and South Africa — each have different approaches to making changes to establish an alternative non-dollar-denominated international financial system…

infobrics (2022-12-29). India-Russia Ties Go Deeper with Provinces Getting into the Act. infobrics.org The geography of partnership between Moscow and India is not just limited to New Delhi, Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov stated…

infobrics (2022-12-29). Beyond Geopolitics: Re-Examining Russia's BRICS Relationship. infobrics.org Despite frequent skepticism, the BRICS have come a long way. From a loose label given by investment bankers to four emerging economies in 2001 (Brazil, Russia, India and China), to a semi-formal group (adding South Africa in 2010)…

teleSUR, jaa, SH (2022-12-29). India presentará su candidatura para Juegos Olímpicos de 2036. telesurtv.net El funcionario expresó que su nación mostrará un plan de tareas ante los miembros de pleno derecho del Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI).

WSWS (2022-12-29). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Indian tea plantation workers sacked without warning; Australian Apple workers strike for 24 hours.

WSWS (2022-12-29). Rank-and-file Committee at Renault-Nissan plant in India opposes union attempt to ram through wage-cutting contract. wsws.org Fearing growing rank-and-file anger over their inaction, the unions have connived with Renault-Nissan management to ambush us—forcing us to vote on an agreement that we haven't seen, let alone studied and discussed.

Tanupriya Singh (2022-12-29). A call to the people: If capitalism is to be fought, it has to be fought in the DRC. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in This is the second of two stories on the ongoing crisis in the eastern provinces of the DRC. Part one can be read On Friday, December 23, the M23…

Editor (2022-12-29). "Shelby County v. Holder:" How the Supreme Court attacked Black voting rights. mronline.org In 2013, five unelected judges gutted the right to vote for tens of millions of African Americans and others. The Supreme Court's ruling in Shelby v. Holder overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) that prevented voter suppression.

Editor (2022-12-29). The war on Christmas drag shows. mronline.org GOP endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ "groomer" rhetoric inspired armed fascist groups to harass queer events, spurring a diverse, celebratory community response.

Editor (2022-12-29). California Passed a Milestone Law To Stop Neighborhood Drilling. Now Big Oil Has Launched Its Counterattack. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-12-29). Joe Lauria: Fighting the "Psyopcracy" scheerpost.com It is a hard thing to combat because it's not a physical enemy but rather messages that lodge themselves in millions of people's minds. And it has come to rule over us.

Editor (2022-12-29). On Football, Opium and Popular Resistance: Not All Sports Are Created Equal. scheerpost.com By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of disadvantaged groups. Therefore, I was taken aback when he surmised that "football is the opium of the people". The reference, which summons a famous Marxist …

Editor (2022-12-29). Patrick Lawrence: The Souls of Ukrainian Folk. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-12-29). Scheer & Hedges: They Know Everything About You. scheerpost.com Editor's Note: These are videos taken from the Real News Network, edited into one video for easier viewing experience. All clips belong to the Real News Network, and are being published here because of their timeless commentary, and relevance to the recently exposed corporate state censorship regime revealed in the Twitter Files.

Editor (2022-12-29). This Year, the Reproductive Justice Movement Showed Us What It Means to Fight. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-12-29). Thousands March in Occupied Territories Demanding Release of Bodies of Palestinians. scheerpost.com Israel has kept the bodies of over a hundred Palestinians who were killed by its forces or died inside its prisons as 'bargaining chips', including that of Palestinian freedom fighter Nasser Abu Hmeid who died last week.

Janine Jackson (2022-12-29). 'Every issue is a disability issue'. mronline.org CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.

Patrick Lawrence (2022-12-29). A war of rhetoric & reality. mronline.org Washington put us all on notice when Zelensky got to town: It has no intention of seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis and every intention of recommitting indefinitely to its ideological war.

Sara Flounders (2022-12-29). Japan rearms under Washington's pressure ‚àí a wake-up call to the antiwar movement. workers.org Okinawa is the largest of the Ryukyu islands. The Dec. 16 announcement by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of a new defense strategy, while doubling military spending by 2027 to implement it, is the largest defense shake-up in decades and a wake-up call to the antiwar movement. The decision includes . . . |

SP Editor (2022-12-29). Donziger Files Response to 'DOJ's Disastrous Decision to Side With Chevron'. scheerpost.com

SP Editor (2022-12-29). Benjamin Netanyahu and the Final 'Execution of the Palestinian People'. scheerpost.com

SP Editor (2022-12-29). United Nations Chief António Guterres Begs the World for Peace in 2023. scheerpost.com

ecns.cn (2022-12-29). Hangzhou rolls out measures to stimulate economy. ecns.cn Hangzhou, Zhejiang province has rolled out a series of policies to encourage non-local workers to stay during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday from Jan 21 to 27. The goal is to maintain production levels, according to a notice released by local authorities at a news conference on Tuesday.

infobrics (2022-12-29). Kiev regime's UN 'peace' summit fantasy. infobrics.org The very idea of (ab)using the UN to further the goals of the Kiev regime and NATO has to do with not only discrediting Russia, but also diminishing its influence in the world organization.

The Conversation (2022-12-29). To attain global Climate and Biodiversity Goals, we must reclaim Nature in our Cities. juancole.com By Emma Despland, Concordia University | The climate and biodiversity crises we have been experiencing for the past few decades are inseparable. The scientific research presented at the back-to-back international summits on climate and biodiversity held in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt and in Montréal, Canada, respectively, has made this abundantly clear. Addressing these crises …

WSWS (2022-12-29). UK counter-terror Prevent scheme to downplay far-right threat and strengthen anti-Muslim scapegoating. wsws.org The review was set up by the government to prepare an onslaught on democratic rights, authored by William Shawcross, a fellow of the right-wing Policy Exchange thinktank and former director of the neo-conservative Henry Jackson Society…

Staff (2022-12-29). Peruvian Dictatorship Shows True Colours: Alderpeople Dismissed, National Strike Called for January 4. orinocotribune.com Caracas, December 28, 2022 ( The de facto ministry of the interior justified their decision on the basis that "

_____ (2022-12-29). International Call For New Year's Eve Noise Demonstrations. popularresistance.org This is a call for a night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state. Historically, New Year's Eve is one of the noisiest nights of the year. This year, most of which has been consumed by a global pandemic, we encourage folks to take whatever measures are necessary to insure individual and community well-being, in response to both the virus and the state, understanding the balance each of us must strike for ourselves. Given our current reality, on New Year's Eve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not…

_____ (2022-12-29). Japan Rearms Under Washington's Pressure. popularresistance.org The Dec. 16 announcement by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of a new defense strategy, while doubling military spending by 2027 to implement it, is the largest defense shake-up in decades and a wake-up call to the antiwar movement. | The decision includes openly acquiring offensive weapons and reshaping its military command structure for its expanded armed forces. On Dec. 23, the draft budget was approved by Kishida's cabinet. | Japan's dangerous military expansion should set off international alarm bells. This major escalation is taking place based on intense U.S. imperialist pressure. It is the next step i…

_____ (2022-12-29). Perú's Dictatorship Shows True Colours. popularresistance.org This Monday, December 26, the de facto government of Perú, led by Dina Boluarte, annulled the appointment of 312 district sub-alderpeople across 23 regions of the country, in a move that seems to advance the erasure of any traces of opposition to Boluarte's controversial rule. These sub-alderpeople had been appointed by President Pedro Castillo, in accordance with local legislation, during his mandate by popular election. | The de facto ministry of the interior justified their decision on the basis that "these officials, instead of responding to the guidelines established regarding the functions of district sub-a…

Allen Forrest (2022-12-29). When Conspiracy Theorists are Most Dangerous. dissidentvoice.org A discussion featuring Sasha Latypova, an ex-pharma/biotech professional with 25 years of experience in clinical trials, clinical technologies and regulatory approvals, about the role of the Department of Defense and National Security Council in deploying biowarfare agents marketed as "vaccines" on the US and global population.

Anonymous669 (2022-12-29). Turkish Defense Minister Praises Breakthrough Meeting With His Syrian Counterpart. southfront.org Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and inellgince chief Hakan Fidan arriving in Moscow before meeting with their Syrian counterparts. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense. | Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has praised the The meeting, which lasted for a…

ecns.cn (2022-12-29). China to lift flight restrictions. ecns.cn China will end the over two-year long control measures—"circuit breaker" and "Five One" policies— for inbound international flights starting Jan 8, promoting the resumption of international passenger flights, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2022-12-29). China steps up efforts increasing int'l cooperation on IP protection. ecns.cn China has stepped up efforts in increasing international cooperation on intellectual property protection, to improve its competitiveness with a rapid growth of patent applications from overseas, a senior IP regulator said.

ecns.cn (2022-12-29). CPC continues self-reform as it embarks on new journey. ecns.cn Less than a week after the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, led the newly elected top leadership on a visit to Yan'an, an old revolutionary base in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-29). On the Application of Xi Jinping Thought in an Imperialist Country. orinocotribune.com By Friends of Socialist China Dec 23, 2022 | On 10 December, the first of two online seminars on the theme 'The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and its World Significance', organised jointly by Friends of Socialist China and the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was held. We are pleased to publish below the contribution by Dr Hugh Goodacre, Managing Director of the Institute for Independence Studies and lecturer in the History of Economic Thought at University College London. Hugh's speech provides a profound and thought-provoking analy…

Sharon Zhang (2022-12-29). Starbucks's Refusal to Bargain With 21 Stores Is Illegal, NLRB Says. truthout.org In a new filing issued by federal labor prosecutors this week, the labor board is alleging that Starbucks's refusal to bargain with unionized stores in the Pacific Northwest constitutes illegal anti-union activity in the first of what could be many similar complaints to come. Labor officials wrote in their complaint, filed on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel… |

Staff (2022-12-29). Perú's Dictatorship Shows True Colours: Alderpeople Dismissed, National Strike Called for January 4. orinocotribune.com Caracas, December 28, 2022 ( The de facto ministry of the interior justified their decision on the basis that "

WSWS (2022-12-29). Is Sahra Wagenknecht founding a new party? wsws.org A Wagenknecht party would seek to steer opposition to the Ukraine war into a nationalist dead-end. Resting on anti-Americanism, it would strengthen German militarism.

WSWS (2022-12-29). US winter storm death toll expected to rise as National Guard and emergency services conduct search and rescue operations in Buffalo. wsws.org The official death toll of the massive winter storm that plunged much of the United States into sub-freezing temperatures over Christmas weekend continues to rise as rescue crews clear roads and buildings inundated in snow and ice.

WSWS (2022-12-29). Youth and workers in Sri Lanka speak on IYSSE global anti-war webinar. wsws.org The IYSSE in Sri Lanka interviewed students and workers who joined the December 10 global IYSSE rally, "For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine."