(2025-01-16). Egypt: Repression, Rising Poverty in Sisi's Second Decade. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A man walks past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, March 6, 2024. | © 2024 AP Photo/Amr Nabil. | (Beirut) — The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt entered its second decade with wholesale repression, systematically detaining and punishing peaceful critics and activists, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. Egypt's severe economic crisis had devastating effects on people's access to economic, social, and cultural rights while authorities thrived on a lack of accountability and public scrutiny.For the 546-page world report, in its 35th ed…
(2025-01-16). Desigualdad y pobreza laboral persisten en el mundo, según la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. cubadebate.cu Alrededor de 240 millones de trabajadores en el planeta han sido afectados desde el 2015 por formas extremas de pobreza laboral, indicó un informe reciente de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT). De acuerdo con la fuente, a escala global las peores manifestaciones tendieron a disminuir en tiempos recientes, pero persisten en los países de ingreso bajo.
(2025-01-16). Biden takes aim at oligarchs and extreme wealth in farewell address. aljazeera.com US President Joe Biden said 'powerful forces' threatened to undo his climate policies as Trump prepares to take office.
(2025-01-16). Debt cancellation in the land of Canaan in the first millennium BC. cadtm.org The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of debt in political, social and geostrategic conflicts throughout history.
| Social justice, in particular in regard to the cancellation of debts that keep the poor enslaved to the rich, is a leitmotif in the history of ancient Israel.
| The Deuteronomic (…) | – | / |
(2025-01-16). The Urgent Need to Better Measure Household Debt. cadtm.org
(2025-01-16). CADTM and the experience of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt. cadtm.org
(2025-01-16). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org
(2025-01-16). Democracy and Debt: Has the Link been Broken? cadtm.org The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of debt in political, social and geostrategic conflicts throughout history.
| Debt Slavery — Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It's Stopped
| Book V of Aristotle's Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves (…) | – |
(2025-01-16). 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards laureates announced. pressenza.com The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, Germany, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in working for a nuclear-free world. | The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury of their peers and are offered in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (India) for Resistance; Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek (Brazil / Germany) for Education; and Edwick Madzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.
(2025-01-16). How one family is preserving Cairo's last bookbinding atelier. newarab.com 
In the alleyway behind "My grandfather Abdelzaher Ibrahim started working here for…
(2025-01-16). How one family is preserving Cairo's last bookbinding atelier. newarab.com Al Azhar mosque, at the back of a Mamluk building filled with jewel-coloured books, Yasser Abdelzaher touches the lettering stamp heating on the open fire, his fingertips monitoring the temperature. Once hot enough, he weaves a ribbon of gold leaf, deftly embossing it onto the spine of a leather book. This is how it has been done for generations in the last traditional bookbinder workshop in Cairo. | "My grandfather Abdelzaher Ibrahim started working here for a man called Hag Ali Hegab in 1936," Yasser Abdelzaher tells | Today the atelier remains a family operation run by (2025-01-16). Chinese netizens welcome influx of 'TikTok refugees'. independent.co.ug 
BEIJING | Xinhua | Chinese internet users on a popular social networking platform have noticed a sudden influx of foreign newcomers who claim to have migrated from TikTok due to concerns about a potential ban by the U.S. government within the week. On Xiaohongshu, a Chinese platform with combined features of Instagram and Pinterest, hashtags …
(2025-01-16). Climate Just Cities: A Global South Perspective. plenglish.com New Delhi._ This article strives to capture concerns that have emerged from ActionAid Association's decades long work with deprived urban communities in India and beyond. The work started through engagement with the urban homeless, and the need to provide adequate shelter, and evolved to engage with people dependent on the informal economy.
(2025-01-15). Festival de Cine de Gibara a pocos días de cerrar inscripciones. radiohc.cu La Habana, 15 ene (RHC) El plazo de admisión de las obras para participar en el 19 Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre de Gibara vencerá el 31 de enero, advirtieron hoy sus organizadores.
(2025-01-15). Trump ambitious for Greenland's riches. plenglish.com London, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) The BBC World media outlet of the United Kingdom noted today the wealth of Greenland, a topic in vogue due to the aspirations of the new US president, Donald Trump, to take over that territory.
(2025-01-15). GST is of the rich, by the rich and for the rich: TS Singhdeo. ummid.com India's GST (Goods and Services Tax), system is disproportionately benefiting the wealthy while burdening the middle and lower-income groups, says TS Singhdeo, former Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
(2025-01-15). GST is of the rich, by the rich and for the rich: TS Singhdeo. ummid.com India's GST (Goods and Services Tax), system is disproportionately benefiting the wealthy while burdening the middle and lower-income groups, says TS Singhdeo, former Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
(2025-01-15). Trump's 15 billionaire fossil fuel friends have got $2.5bn richer ALREADY this YEAR. thecanary.co A new report has revealed the total wealth accumulation of US fossil fuel billionaires increased by 15% since the spring before the 2024 US presidential election (April 2024) to Donald Trump's inauguration (January 20 2025). Published by the Climate Accountability Research Project (CARP), the report is the first in a new research series tracking the […] | By
(2025-01-15). Debt cancellation in the land of Canaan in the first millennium BC. cadtm.org The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of debt in political, social and geostrategic conflicts throughout history.
| Social justice, in particular in regard to the cancellation of debts that keep the poor enslaved to the rich, is a leitmotif in the history of ancient Israel.
| The Deuteronomic (…) | – | / |
(2025-01-15). The Urgent Need to Better Measure Household Debt. cadtm.org
(2025-01-15). CADTM and the experience of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt. cadtm.org
(2025-01-15). Personal endebtment and debt forgivness in the Roman empire. cadtm.org
(2025-01-15). Democracy and Debt: Has the Link been Broken? cadtm.org The year 2025 is considered by Christians to be a jubilee year under the banner of debt cancellation. To mark the occasion, the CADTM is republishing a series of articles on debt cancellation, the struggles for debt cancellation and the role of debt in political, social and geostrategic conflicts throughout history.
| Debt Slavery — Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It's Stopped
| Book V of Aristotle's Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves (…) | – |
(2025-01-15). South Africa hosts technical G20 Framework Working Group meeting under its Presidency. tvbrics.com 
This meeting is the first of four FWG sessions planned for 2025…
(2025-01-15). Australia warns of 'strongest possible action' if citizen killed in Ukraine. aljazeera.com Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says gov't working to verify report that volunteer fight was killed by Russian forces.
(2025-01-15). Will there be war with China? cpusa.org 
Will there be a war with China? People are asking this question as there is a high level of tension near Taiwan and in the South China (East) Sea. U.S. imperialism pushes an aggressive posture with air and naval exercises and continues to arm Taiwan, in violation of previous agreements. Such a war would be a huge disaster for the working class. | Following up on the 2011 pivot to Asia, U.S. imperialism is creating new anti-China military alliances like AUKUS (which includes Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.), and is expanding its strategic military presence in the Pacific region, such as enlarging the naval bas…
(2025-01-15). Prison population grew in Uruguay. plenglish.com On December 31 there were 16,118 persons behind bars, a five percent increase in recent months. | The rate of prisoners is 460 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest in the region. | There are 14,719 men, 1,344 women, 21 trans men, and 34 trans women in the prison system. | The report indicates a three percent increase in the male population and a 17 percent increase in the female population. | At the same time, the Ministry of the Interior has 2,280 vacancies under construction. | Next week a new meeting will be held by Judge Blanca Riero to review the progress of the Working Group against prison overcrowdi…
(2025-01-15). Trump's HUD pick Scott Turner is chair of right-wing Center For Education Opportunity. indybay.org If Scott Turner, A Trump Loyalist, Becomes The Next HUD Secretary, Millions Of HUD Subsidized Households Will Be Placed At Risk Of Homelessness!
(2025-01-15). Fossil Fuel "Oil-Garchs" Reap Billions in Payback for Trump Support. inequality.org
(2025-01-15). Voters spoilt for choice: Peter Albanese or Anthony Dutton. onlineopinion.com.au Regardless of the 2025 election, voters get duopoly dinner: environmental and energy sellout, regressive education, unfair taxation, mega migration, housing hunger games.