1. Israel strikes residential areas, hospitals and designated humanitarian zones killing at least 82 Gazans in the first three days of 2025
2. As expected, US President Biden aligns with the incoming Trump administration by blocking the sale of US Steel to Nippon Steel on “national security” grounds
3. With Trump's intervention, Mike Johnson is reelected as Speaker of the US House of Representatives; after the result, New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries vows "bi-partisanship"
4. The impeached president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, rebuffs a warrant for his arrest after a five and a half hour standoff
5. Perfunctory reporting and silence surrounding the mysterious oven death of a 19-year-old Walmart employee in Halifax, Canada, speaks to the utter indifference of the capitalist oligarchy to the lives of the working class
6. All of Australia’s 10 hottest years have occurred since 2005: now a major bushfire sparked by a lightning strike in the state of Victoria, Australia, sparks outrage against inaction against global climate change
7. A report that describes the preventable death of a penitentiary prisoner in Australia whitewashes the indifference of the authorities who were supposed to care for him
8. The acting vice chancellor of Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka cancels a political science lecture addressing government austerity measures on behalf of the IMF
9. With localities in the UK cutting arts funding to try to manage their budget shortfalls, cultural institutions, like museums and theaters, face an existential crisis
11. Three years after a safe staffing law took effect in New York, harmful understaffing persists in the state’s hospitals
10. Impelled by plunderous interests, Turkey secretly renews negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers Party despite trying to suppress it for 40 years
11. Ignoramus and world's richest man, Elon Musk, fans the flames of an online lynch mob in the UK with a torrent of tweets supporting Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party
12. German politicians and the media have reacted to Donald Trump’s election victory in the US by aggressively normalizing fascism; the influential Welt am Sonntag newspaper publishes a guest article by Elon Musk defending the extremist AfD political party
13. German politicians exploit the recent horrific attack on a Christmas market to expand the powers of the police and intelligence services and establish a police state
14. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
