(2023-12-31). Crisis In The Democratic Republic Of Congo. popularresistance.org Since 1996, at least 6 million people have been killed in successive conflicts in the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The same conflicts are largely responsible for the 6.9 million internally displaced people in the DRC today, one of the world's largest populations of IDPs. Successive waves of violence have unfolded against a backdrop of a desperate struggle for the $24 trillion of mineral wealth embedded in Congolese soil. Despite immense wealth, nearly 60 million people — 64% of the country — live on less than $2.15 a day. One in six people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Sahar…
(2023-12-30). Mexico: more than 8,000 people advance towards Oaxaca in migrant caravan. pressenza.com The more than 8,000 Central and South American migrants who make up the migrant caravan known as the "Exodus of Poverty" continued their journey early this morning from the municipality of Escuintla to Mapastepec, in Chiapas, to reach the state of Oaxaca. | On the fourth day of their journey, the thousands of men, women, and children from Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, and Cuba advanced along the coastal highway of Chiapas to head north. | According to Luis Rey García Villagrán, an activist with the Human Rights Centre for Human Dignification, nine out of ten migrants in the caravan want to s…
(2023-12-30). Black Investors Take Back Legal Tool To Restore Chicago's Affordable Housing. popularresistance.org It was early 2020 when Jay Davis realized his family was going to lose his childhood home, a red brick house in Rosemoor on the South Side of Chicago that had been in his family for generations. | Davis' great-uncle had been living there, and as his dementia worsened the one-story house began to deteriorate. When he died, he left it to his son who had serious health issues and could not maintain the home, Davis said. | Davis, 41, wanted to keep the house from becoming another vacant lot on the South Side. He understood the significance of homeownership as a tool for building generational wealth that has been deni…
(2023-12-30). The futility of waste management. independent.co.ug 
COMMENT | SARAH NEWMAN | When the world leaders gathered in Dubai for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), the United Arab Emirates unveiled the world's highest-capacity waste-to-energy (WTE) facility. The plant is designed to process two million metric tons of municipal waste annually, producing enough electricity to power 120,000 households per year by incinerating …
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"Katyusha" — Soviet Army Song (Female Choir) 2024: Coming USA Political Dysfunction, by Karl Sanchez "Listen to what he says," by Patrick Armstrong Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt |- Robinson's Podcast Trickery, Humiliation, Death — and the Timeless Hunger for 'Honour and Glory,' by Alastair Crooke No, Biden Is Not Being Played by Netanyahu. U.S. Imperialist Policy Is the Systematic Problem, by Finian Cunningham The Great Taking: How the Banksters Plan to Steal Everything From Everyone, by Joseph Mercola Democrats Facing Election Wip…
(2023-12-30). Podcast Ep 85: Zionism, Germany and the politics of debt. electronicintifada.net Abdaljawad Omar analyzes the emergence of Zionism.
(2023-12-31). Sign CODE PINK Petition to End Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza. indybay.org Bombing Gaza is a deliberate act of genocide against the Palestinian people. | www.codepink.org/indefensible | The US has played a significant role in this by being the biggest funder of Israel's military, providing it with $3.8 billion every year, as well as currently working to send $14.5 billion more in military "aid". Despite Israel's brutal violence against Palestinians increasing this year, and the blatant genocide being carried out in Gaza now, the US has repeatedly expressed its support for the occupying forces. Now 15,000+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7. Help us move towa…
(2023-12-30). Beyond A Ceasefire: Palestinian Youth Movement's Demands For Liberation. popularresistance.org The entire Palestine solidarity movement in North America has united behind the demand of a ceasefire in Gaza. For the first time in years, organizations of the working class such as labor unions have been united against the status quo of Western foreign policy and taken an unprecedented stance against Israeli violence. | At the same time, important sectors in the movement have been trying to push the demands even further. The Palestinian Youth Movement, a major international formation of Palestinian youth with significant presence across North America, has been working to push the movement beyond dreaming of an…
(2023-12-30). Oppose the unions' attempt to short-circuit the Quebec public sector workers' struggle! wsws.org If rank-and-file workers do not organize to defeat this betrayal, public sector workers will suffer a further deterioration in their wages and working conditions, and the right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government will accelerate its privatization plans.
(2023-12-30). Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless. indybay.org Two homeless memorials were held on December 21st in Santa Cruz, one by "service providers", the other by Food Not Bombs. I reprint the flyers I distributed at these events as well as the December 25th Xmas dinner organized by Joe Schultz, Food Not Bombs, Friends of Xmas, and the inevitable Steve Pleich.
(2023-12-30). Sam Bankman-Fried will not face a second trial. devdiscourse.com U.S. prosecutors said they do not plan to conduct a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last month of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange. In a letter filed on Friday night in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said the "strong public interest" in a prompt resolution of their case against the 31-year-old former billionaire outweighed the benefits of a second trial.
(2023-12-31). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 84: Gaza At 'Catastrophic Threshold' Of Famine. popularresistance.org Twelve weeks into the Israeli rampage in the Gaza Strip, airstrikes continue to flatten the small Palestinian territory, killing dozens as fighting rages on between Israeli ground forces and Palestinian resistance fighters. | Deadly Israeli airstrikes were reported since Thursday afternoon in Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as well as in the Nuseirat, al-Bureij, and al-Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza, and in Beit Hanoun and the Gaza City neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza. | The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported at midday on Friday that at least 187 people had been killed a…
(2023-12-31). 'Desperate for food': UNRWA warns 40% of Gazans face famine risk. presstv.ir The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warns that 40 percent of Gaza's population are facing a "risk of famine," amid Israel's war on Gaza.
(2023-12-30). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 84: Gaza at 'Catastrophic Threshold' of Famine, West Bank Marks 'Deadliest Year on Record' for Palestinian Children. scheerpost.com 
Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip on October 9, 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Wafa. | By Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau / Casualties: : | 21,507 k…
(2023-12-30). Depopulation and the mRNA Vaccine. globalresearch.ca In the Global South, despair, without shelter, no food — often leading to suicide and if not to death by famine. However, those few billionaires on top, who pretend soon be ruling the One World Order, increased their combined fortune in just a few months by some 200 billion dollars.
(2023-12-30). Genocide on the Installment Plan. counterpunch.org In contrast to other historical atrocities, the crimes against the people of Gaza—mass murder, manufactured famine, dispossession, looting of property, demolition of cultural and religious heritage, and forced expulsion—have all been committed in the open—the genocidal plans have been written about in newspaper columns and freely expounded on talk shows. You won't have to excavate through secret archives, the evidence of these grotesque crimes is there for all to see. What they've said and what they've done is on the record. There can be no hiding from it. And those who've armed, funded, abetted…
(2023-12-31). Mayo Clinic makes transformative $22 million investment in local communities. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Twenty-one nonprofits will receive support to help those in need ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic cares for its patients, communities and each other, and Mayo's Bold. Forward. strategy supports this care through work to Cure, Connect, and Transform healthcare for all. As this strategy successfully unfolds, this year Mayo Clinic is able to invest an additional $22 million in community organizations addressing pressing needs related to housing, food insecurity, access to healthcare, and safe places…
(2023-12-30). Mayo Clinic makes transformative $22 million investment in local communities. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Twenty-one nonprofits will receive support to help those in need ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic cares for its patients, communities and each other, and Mayo's Bold. Forward. strategy supports this care through work to Cure, Connect, and Transform healthcare for all. As this strategy successfully unfolds, this year Mayo Clinic is able to invest an additional $22 million in community organizations addressing pressing needs related to housing, food insecurity, access to healthcare, and safe places…
(2023-12-31). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 86: Israel falls in 'serious strategic trap' in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to fight 'for months'. mondoweiss.net 
The Israeli war cabinet pressures Netanyahu to discuss "the day after" in Gaza as Hamas broadcasts videos of targeting Israeli tanks, and the PFLP says a captive soldier died during an Israeli airstrike. Meanwhile, UNRWA warns of widespread hunger.
(2023-12-30). Trickery, Humiliation, Death — and the Timeless Hunger for 'Honour and Glory'. thealtworld.com The Biden embrace ends by giving Israel a conditional 'green-light' for almost all its projects, bar the Settler arsonists in the West Bank. | One major theme of Homer's Iliad — which somehow seems as fresh and as vivid today as when first written — is its description of how even the greatest of states in Western civilization fail to reclaim what they lose. "Attempts to repair one loss lead only to more losses", Emily Wilson As Wilson sets out…
(2023-12-30). Health workers in South Korea announce new actions in 2024. peoplesdispatch.org The Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union (KHMU) has once again secured significant achievements in protecting public healthcare in South Korea. After 28 members of the KHMU spent 18 days on hunger strike in front of the National Assembly, on December 21, the body finally adopted a budget to support public hospitals that were designated COVID-19 centers over the course of the pandemic. | Thanks to the KHMU actions, approximately 100 billion won (approximately $77.2 million USD) will be allocated to these health institutions. While the amount is still below the actual needs forecast by the trade union, it will…
(2023-12-30). Health workers in South Korea announce new actions in 2024. peoplesdispatch.org The Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union (KHMU) has once again secured significant achievements in protecting public healthcare in South Korea. After 28 members of the KHMU spent 18 days on hunger strike in front of the National Assembly, on December 21, the body finally adopted a budget to support public hospitals that were designated …
(2023-12-30). Hunger Strike Launched at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia. itsgoingdown.org Report on hunger-strike launched at the Red Onion State Prison in so-called Virginia. On Tuesday, December 26th, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution. Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in the…