1. A new era of colonial barbarism and brutality: "We’re going to have Gaza,” Trump said. “We don’t have to buy. There’s nothing to buy. We will have Gaza. ... We’re going to take it.”
2. Sowing complacency, Jacobin magazine, the main media outlet of the phony-left Democratic
Socialists of America, deceives its readers about the threat of fascism and dictatorship posed by the
second Trump administration
3. In direct defiance of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, five US states (Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas) introduce legislative measures to block undocumented children from attending public schools
4. In Detroit, Michigan early Monday morning, a girl aged two and a boy aged nine froze to death as they slept with their homeless family, who had been denied help, inside a van that lost heat when it ran out of gas
Tateona Williams, 29, speaks to WXYZ-TV, Detroit
5. By packing a courtroom for the ostensible purpose of learning how much hospitals were paying scabs to replace striking Oregon Nurses, the union that represents them is really promoting illusions that corporate politicians want to help them
6. A government document leaked to the LA Times describes plans for an eminent large-scale immigration raid on immigrants in Los Angeles by ICE (the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency)
7. Tensions among rivals exacerbated by US political pressure leads to the impeachment of the Philippines' vice-president, Sara Duterte
8. Beset by rising costs of living, 900 medical laboratory workers at private companies across New Zealand go on a token two day strike
9. New Zealand's government and media greet an impending strategic partnership between the Cook Islands and China with alarm
10. The University of Munich in Germany cancels an engagement that would have allowed the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestine to present a lecture to its students
11. Promoted as a "duel," Sunday evening's debate between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz revealed that both establishment candidates, standing in Germany's federal election, tried to outdo each other from the right because they fundamentally agreed on every issue
12. Claims by the establishment and the pseudo-leftist media that the Super Bowl performance by rap musical artist, Kendrick Lamar, represented some sort of rebuke of US President Donald Trump are absurd
13. A Costco worker in Los Angeles speaks to the World Socialist Web Site to describe his disenchantment with the Teamsters union and its betrayal of its members and why he will vote against their sellout deal
14. Lie: tariffs will save American workers' jobs. Truth: unity of workers across national lines will save all workers' jobs
15. Turkish President Erdoğan’s government escalates anti-democratic crackdowns on his political rivals
16. Students and faculty at Cornell University host an expert panel to discuss how to address the US Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and democratic rights, and the US government's transformation into a dictatorship
17. San Francisco, California city resources for immigrants needing legal help
18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
