1. The hypocrisy of the corporate oligarchs and mainstream media (and unthinking pseudo-left elements) concerning the prosecution of the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, who is no hero

2. President-elect Donald Trump threatens to "take back" the Panama Canal

3. Aaron Siri's preposterous ideas about Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine which has protected millions of people from becoming paralyzed or dying

4. France: fascists vandalize the vacation home of New Popular Front (NFP) head Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s vacation home

5. Hours after Elon Musk messaged “Only the AfD can save Germany,” a far-right Alternative (AfD) supporter plows his vehicle through a Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany leaving five dead, and 200 injured

6. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad: the US, European and regional powers believe they can utilize the al-Qaeda-linked group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as their subcontractor to further their geostrategic interests in Syria

7. The president of George Mason University in Virginia paints student activists engaged in constitutionally protected activities as potential terrorists

8. Resident physicians training to be doctors at the Detroit Medical Center in Michigan demonstrate for better working conditions against its owner, Tenet Healthcare

9. Dire conditions confront survivors of Vanuatu's devastating December 17 earthquake

10. What sort of society drives its artists into pornography? A great deal of what now dominates the music and entertainment world is backward and degraded; what can we learn from Pierre-Jean de Béranger?

11. South Korea's political crisis deepens a week after President Yoon Suk-yeol was impeached

12. Associated passenger rail unions in Australia offer rail companies "a peace offering" to prepare pushing through a sell-out deal  

13. Across Australia, public schools face a severe teacher shortage due to daunting duties and poor rewards

14. A tactical shift of the ruling class, not a genuine victory for workers: a judge rules against unconstitutional parts of a law that attacked pensions and health care, stripped public sector employees of their collective bargaining rights, and decimated public education in Wisconsin

15.  A secret deal between the UAW and the EV automaking company, Rivian, reveals the alignment of the union's bureaucracy with corporate profit interests

16. Veteran Trotskyist Barbara Slaughter addresses the UK Socialist Equality Party's Seventh National Congress: What is the truth behind slanders of Gerry Healy? What does it mean to be a revolutionary optimist?

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