1.  Academy Award nominations: "To what extent do the most pressing questions in American life, the questions confronting tens of millions of people—war, the threat of fascism, attacks on democratic rights and immigrants, poverty—find expression in Hollywood films?"

2. US President Donald Trump creates a new agency called the External Revenue Service and issues a sweeping executive order,  the America First Trade Policy, setting out an agenda for a full-scale economic war against the rest of the world, “friend” and foe alike

3.  The US descent into becoming an authoritarian dictatorship: the US President Trump wants to attach duties if the victims of California fires are to receive federal aid

4.  City crews working to clear homeless encampments opposite the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church crush a man who was in his tent; a woman who knew the man said: “He had dreams, ambitions. He had family; he was a good, good friend of mine, and he’s gone.”

5.  In New Zealand as in every country, the ruling class is carrying out an assault on public health, which is viewed as an unacceptable drain on the obscene wealth of the super-rich: now its prime minister is replacing the country's health minister with a  far-right member of the National Party

6. All is not well in the international bond markets and experts say that the US must reduce its national deficit which can only be accomplished by reducing spending, if no taxes are increased

7.  US President Trump, addressing a virtual panel at the Davos, Switzerland World Economic Forum, promises to slash the US corporate tax rate, gut environmental protections, and slash social spending

8.  "A corridor care crisis"-- Britain's National Health Service fails to provide a sufficient number of beds for its patients

9.  Exploited gig economy workers accuse a payment app company of withholding their earnings unless they pay a "ransom" to receive their wages on time

10.  A contaminated beach near Sydney, Australia's international airport fails to adequately dissuade the public from using it for recreation

11.  Quebec’s capitalist ruling elite and its political representatives greet the new US Trump administration with trepidation and astonishment

12.  Detroit Axle workers at the Daimler Trucks North America manufacturing complex in suburban Detroit are ready to strike when their five-year agreement expires

13.  In Saxony, Germany, the far-right AfD political party fills key government positions critical for expanding a police state

14.  The US Trump administration is reportedly planning to deploy 10,000 active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border to facilitate its fascistic deportation program

15.  By immediately meeting with the Quad, a de facto alliance of the US, Japan, India, and Australia, the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signals that deepening a confrontation with China would be at the center of the Trump administration's fascistic foreign policy

16.  All-out war on public health and science: President Trump withdraws the US from the World Health Organization, imposes a gag order on all the agencies that comprise the US Department of Health and Human Services and threatens to adjourn Congress to ensure that his anti-public health nominees are installed through recess appointments

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