1.  US President Trump capitalizes on the Helene Hurricane and Los Angeles fire disasters and displays his administration’s callous indifference to human suffering-- past, present and future

2. Amid escalating extreme wealth and inequality worldwide, oligarchs assemble at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

3.  The Trump presidency instills illusory hopes in a weary Russian population (and even its ruling oligarchy) that there will be a shift on the Ukraine front towards peace rather than a further escalation of war

4. The fate of two lawsuits that allege age discrimination and sexual harassment by automakers, General Motors and Stellantis, is uncertain after Donald Trump replaces the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a far right winger

5.  "Sowing the seeds for the next pandemic"-- President Trump withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization

6.  The diary and media accounts of the fascist who attacked students, killing one, and then turning his gun on himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, paint a disturbing picture of acute social distress and political backwardness

7.  Biden's last-minute posthumous pardon of the reactionary Black nationalist, Marcus Garvey, a right-wing figure who advocated racial segregation and cooperated with the Ku Klux Klan

Marcus Garvey

8.  Argentine President Javier Milei defends billionaire Elon Musk’s Nazi salute and fascist views, and threatens to hunt down and exterminate left-wingers in the name of “Liberty”

9. German police raid a pro-Palestinian association because it promoted solidarity with Palestinians and protests against the genocide in Gaza

10. People take to the streets and protest in Obuasi, Ghana after soldiers shoot and kill nine “illegal” miners and severely injured 14 more at Ghana's largest, multinationally-owned, goldmine

11.  Workers and youth must demand the release and dropping of charges of all who were arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police during and after last Saturday’s national March for Palestine held in London, England

12.  One of the 77 people arrested as part of the anti-democratic police crackdown on last weekend's national Gaza protest in London, England speaks about their ordeal to reporters at the World Socialist Web Site

13.  The highly anticipated Squid Game 2 now streaming on Netflix is flawed chiefly by its libel against mankind: that men and women, even those financially stressed, would willingly submit to having their fellow creatures massacred

14. Recent arrests over apparent antisemitic attacks in Australia have produced no evidence of any connection to the mass opposition and protests against the Australian government-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

15.  A mental health care nurse describes the New South Wales, Australia Labor government’s escalating assault on public sector psychiatrists and the entire public health care system, and even how psychiatrists are replaced with a QR code and videos

18.  The strike of 5,000 nurses, physicians and other medical workers enters its third week in the US state of Oregon, while nurses in Wyoming and Louisiana now threaten to strike

16.  Union bureaucrats and the Australian Labor government try to keep Sydney commuter rail workers at their mercy

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