Oct 18, 2024

1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extinguishes ceasefire hopes after having a key Hamas leader killed: “This is not the end of the war in Gaza”

2. With a world reeling with crises and uncertainties, US President Biden meets with his counterparts and co-conspirators from the United Kingdom, Germany, and France

3. Ballooning international debt, with three out of four trades in financial markets simply refinancing existing debt, increases the likelihood of a world financial crisis

4. Autoworker job losses expose how the "we have your back" image that the Biden administration promotes about itself is a deceit

5. An innocent death row prisoner in Texas who should be freed, gets a surprising last-minute reprieve-- why does the death penalty still exist in the US?

6. In the face of growing disillusionment at home and abroad with Ukraine's stalemate and staggering losses in its war with Russia, Ukrainian President Zelensky describes his five-point “victory plan”

7. A quarter of Dunedin, New Zealand's population marches to protest public health funding cuts

8. 99% of Frontier Airlines pilots vote to authorize a strike. What if they unified their struggle with striking Boeing workers?

9. An interview with a tenured professor who was fired after a student's accusation snowballs: "I think opposing genocide and fighting for people’s liberation, whether it be Palestinians or anyone else, should be the basic foundation of what we do as people."

10. Manufacturing Russophobia: the British government stages a public inquiry into the strange death of Dawn Sturgess

11. As part of its efforts to stifle dissent against war and genocide, the British government has police raid the home of journalist Asa Winstanley

12. A 31-year career of service ends in 20 seconds: a British mail delivery worker describes losing his job over trumped-up charges and the failure of his union to defend him

13. Kinds of Kindness is a lazy, unserious, self-indulgent, and unilluminating film

14. The World Socialist Web Site interviews a physician whose op-ed in the New York Times would be the first report in its pages to describe how children were being deliberately targeted by Israeli soldiers in Gaza

15. After holding its Seventh National Congress, the Socialist Equality Party in Australia delivers a statement describing its challenges and how it will meet them

16. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!