1.  A clear look back at the January 6, 2021 coup attempt, predicted by the World Socialist Web Site, and a look at the serious implications of US President Trump's pardoning and commuting of sentenced insurrection participants now

2. Israel uses the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza as an opportunity to step up its war on the West Bank; meanwhile the residents of Gaza continue to sift through 50 million tons of rubble to find hundreds more bodies

3. Bowing to pressure from US President Donald Trump's fascist movement, the nonprofit health research organization EcoHealth Alliance fires its president, Dr. Peter Daszak, who pioneered warnings about Covid-19

4. At least 76 people were killed and 51 injured by a fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey which had virtually no fire safety measures in place

5. The Pentagon deploys its first active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border to carry out the “largest deportation operation” in US history and to thwart a fictitious "invasion"

6. Eighty years after the end of World War II, an archive naming Nazi war criminals and collaborators in the Netherlands is opened to the public

7. Overcoming many obstacles against it, a two-day conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany on topics related to Palestine; the World Socialist Web Site reports on its substance

8. Recalling the death of Oury Jalloh who was chained hand and foot and burnt to death in a cell at the Dessau-Rosslau police station in Dessau, Germany twenty years ago

9. Losses from the Los Angeles fires, the costliest disaster in US history, include numerous culturally significant heritage sites, libraries, churches and buildings

10. The spread of the Hughes Fire, near Santa Clarita, California, is particularly concerning, as it threatens important infrastructure and services

 

Map showing the location of the Hughes Fire

 

11. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sets up processing centers at border crossings to process migrants who hoped to enter the US

12. On Donald Trump's inauguration, the leaders of New Zealand’s establishment political parties declare their desire to cooperate with the new fascist president of the United States

13. Now a national issue in Sri Lanka: the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) demonstrate against Peradeniya University's ban against students meeting to discuss IMF austerity impositions

Students protest at the gate of Peradeniya University 

14. Intense winter weather connected with global warming: An unprecedented winter storm moves across parts of the US Gulf Coast bringing record low temperatures and snowfall

15.  Researchers in Australia report on the untenable and appalling working conditions in Victoria’s public schools

16. After a tempestuous meeting of the Dáil (parliament), a right-wing coalition government, interested in expanding corporate and private wealth, is expected to take office in Ireland

17.  The efforts of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to collaborate with the new Trump administration, based on their shared “America First” economic nationalism, are rapidly taking shape in the days since the inauguration

18. Hundreds of thousands of outraged TikTok users migrate to the Chinese-owned Rednote app after TikTok was banned by the US government

19. New South Wales, Australian psychiatrists have been mislead to believe their work demands can be met by threatening to all resign

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