SEP (Sri Lanka) 2019 presidential election campaign

Cook Islands signs strategic agreement with China

The tiny Pacific nation’s partnership agreement with China was signed amid a furious diplomatic row with New Zealand, its former colonial ruler.

John Braddock

Israel creates directorate to oversee ethnic cleansing of Gaza

On Monday, Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the creation of a directorate for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tasked with overseeing the implementation of the plan announced by President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Andre Damon

Democrats urge New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign

A wide range of New York City and state Democratic politicians have urged Mayor Eric Adams to resign in the wake of the deal he struck with the Trump administration to dismiss federal charges against him in exchange for allowing the roundup of immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Sandy English

Musk’s data takeover: A weapon for dictatorship and social plunder

An initial goal of the data heist is to facilitate a massive assault on social programs, but the broader aim is to create an all-encompassing database that can be used to track, monitor and suppress political opposition.

Joseph Kishore

UFCW calls off King Soopers strike, agrees to 100 day “labor peace”

The sellout and premature cancellation of the two-week strike called on February 6 breaks the momentum of the strike and secures no real gains for workers, only an agreement to restart negotiations over the next 100 days. But, according to the union, no negotiations have actually been scheduled.

Alex Findijs

Major US think tank probes debt crisis

Brookings Institution researchers drew attention to an article by long-time Republican Mitch Daniels in the Washington Post, stating “only a dwindling number of denialists doubt that a cataclysmic reckoning … lies ahead.”

Nick Beams

As Congress approves RFK to destroy public health, Jacobin says “Keep the booze flowing”

Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), published a politically backward and reactionary article last week titled “The Case for Social Drinking.” In it, writer Ryan Zickgraf railed against reports that Americans' alcohol use has significantly declined in recent years, a healthy trend.

Andy Thompson, Barry Grey

In federal election, Germany’s four main parties all incite anti-refugee hatred and call for greater military spending and war

The entire campaign for this month’s federal election is a repulsive spectacle. All the parties in the Bundestag (parliament) and their candidates to be the next chancellor are competing with each other in inciting anti-refugee hatred, calling for more German and European rearmament spending and currying favour with the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Johannes Stern