2025-01-06: News Headlines

Staff (2025-01-06). Hablemos a lo Maduro. Esto no es una apología. cubadebate.cu En los años que Nicolás Maduro lleva obedeciendo el mandato que su pueblo le ha dado por la vía del voto directo, universal y secreto, por la dialéctica de todos los conflictos o por la interpósita persona de Hugo Chávez, extrañado amigo del alma, ha madurado a su modo una vertiente de lucha que irradia claridad y despeja caminos desde el interior mismo del socialismo bolivariano y del humanismo chavista.

Democracy Now! (2025-01-06). Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics | Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics…

Staff (2025-01-06). Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk's Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics. democracynow.org Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration's economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a "new era" in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires' accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their "destructive" and "nihilist" beliefs. In a f…

Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension. (2025-01-06). Why Be A Doormat? popularresistance.org US President-elect Donald Trump recently referred to Canada as the "51st State" and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its "governor." While on one level, such ridiculous statements are part and parcel of Trump's political persona, they reveal something deeper about the role that Canada occupies in the American economy and political imagination. This is an issue that the Canadian Marxist historian Stanley B. Ryerson explored in a pamphlet entitled "Why Be a Doormat?" published by the Labor-Progressive Party in 1948. | "Canadians need complete and permanent union with the US… Since Canada has shown that she cannot…

Tom Sandborn, Rabble. (2025-01-06). 2024: Workers Organized, Bosses Grew Nervous. popularresistance.org If in the 19th century Marx and Engels could prematurely proclaim that Communist revolution was a "spectre haunting Europe," in 2024 the business class of North America and its compliant mainstream press were growing increasingly nervous about a different but related spectre, a working class that was showing signs of increased and well organized militance. | Strikes were more common and workers, still remembering the hypocritical Covid-era praise for them as heroes and…

Greg Kearney (2025-01-06). The cold, dead hand of McCarthyism. peoplesworld.org Related reading: | >

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. thealtworld.com Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy. Exploitation. Consumerism. | Many rightists warn urgently that our s…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. thealtworld.com Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy. Exploitation. Consumerism. | Many rightists warn urgently that our s…

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