1. Not counting tens of thousands buried under rubble, the official death toll of Gazans killed by the Israeli Defense Force is 45,000

2.  A cynical stunt designed to temporarily tame and control growing discontent among workers: the Los Angeles City Council votes to raise the minimum wage for 23,000 tourism workers

3. Madison, Wisconsin: this time, a child's chilling worldview is behind yet another American mass shooting

4. At the behest of Canada's Liberal government, the Canada Industrial Relations Board forbids determined Canadian mail delivery workers to continue their strike

5. After Bashar al-Assad's fall, European nations try to get Syrian refugees to go back to Syria

6. President Emmanuel Macron's naming of François Bayrou to head a new minority government for France does not resolve the impasse the French political establishment faces: mass popular opposition to Macron’s policies of austerity and war

7. A Teamsters' sellout and betrayal locks in a major reduction in workers’ standard of living: striking Marathon refinery workers in Detroit ratify a a seven-year agreement after a call to vote on short notice

8. The United States sends a diplomatic mission to Sri Lanka to consolidate political ties with Sri Lanka and take advantage of its strategic military value

9. Just a cost of doing business: The Walt Disney Company will pay a $233 million settlement for allegedly stealing wages from 50,000 Disneyland Park employees

10. Elections are planned to be scheduled in February, 2025 after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses a vote of confidence in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag

11. A major political signal: ABC News pays Donald Trump $16,000,000 for the privilege of being sued

12. Part Two: A bi-partisan House Select Committee issues a report  that misrepresents and dismisses the massive accumulated evidence that COVID-19 had a natural origin

And here is a link to that report

13. How a candidate on Trump's list to become head of the USDA suppressed efforts to eradicate the H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) virus, which is running rampant on farms in California and spreading elsewhere

14. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with British troops on Russia’s border to press NATO's war agenda

15. Turkish metal workers continue to strike in defiance of a decree signed by President Erdoğan

16. Members of the political and media establishment clamor for Australia to implement Javier Milei’s fascistic brand of Argentine capitalism

17. US Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North speaks to audiences in Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia to explain the Trotskyist movement's critical role in our present time

18. Workers and young people respond to David North's lectures in Australia

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David North on the times in which we live

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!